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I won't go into the details about why get/set methods are handy when doing object-oriented programming in general, but here's another TextMate snippet that should speed things up when using them in PHP5.  Handles the tabbing and camelCasing of method names automatically:

See note below - this has formatting errors

public function set${1/./\u$0/}(\$$1) {

    \$this->$1 = \$$1;

    return true;

} // function set${1/./\u$0/}


${2:public function get${1/./\u$0/}() {

    return \$this->$1;

\} // function get${1/./\u$0/}}

I have my snippet bound to "getset" (tab trigger) in textmate, so getset?body will yield the following:

	public function setBody($body) {

$this->body = $body;

return true;

} // function setBody


public function getBody() {

return $this->body;

} // function getBody

I also have it configured so that tabbing a second time will highlight the entire getter method, in case you don't want it available for whatever reason (the code I'm writing has a big getAll-type method and individual getters would be highly redundant).  Enjoy :)

Edit - sorry, something's screwing up the formatting here - I think it's being a little too aggressive with stripslashes() or something on display, as I see it properly in the editor window.  See the attached screenshot of the snippet - keep an eye out for some extra backslashes escaping a few characters.  Should be coming in a sec.  Wordpress attachments hate me these days.  Someday I'll do a proper reinstall and deal with all of the cruft.