Language: C C++ D Haskell Lua OCaml PHP Perl Plain Text Python Ruby Scheme Tcl <?php /* Sample code to show use of magic function __clone(). * author@ : http://royads.blogspot.com * summery@ : clone is a keyword which call __clone() method. This method cant be called directly. */ class cls { protected $var; function __construct($value) { $this->setValue($value); } public function setValue($value) { $this->var = $value; } public function getValue() { return $this->var; } public function __clone() { // This function gets executed automatically when clone of object is created. // The code written in this function will work on properties of cloned object only. // we can say this function is used to decide the post cloning operations. $this->setValue(8); } } $obj1 = new cls(5); echo $obj1->getValue(); echo "\nafter cloning\n"; $objClone = clone $obj1; echo $objClone->getValue(); echo "\n".$obj1->getValue(); ?> Private [?] Run code