playing around with emulation of array dynamic properties using __get, __set

test.php

<?php

class MyClass
{
    protected $p = array();

    public function &__get($name)
    {
        echo "Getting: $name\n";
        if (!isset($this->p[$name])) {
            // normally one would trigger a warning here, but this line is called by code doing point-blank `$obj->prop[] = $thing;`
            $this->p[$name] = array();
        }
        return $this->p[$name];
    }

    public function __set($name, $value)
    {
        echo "Setting $name to: "; var_dump($value);
        $this->p[$name] = $value;
    }
}

$c = new MyClass();
$c->plain = 1;
$c->magic[] = 1;
$c->magic[] = array(2);
$c->magic[0] = 2;
var_dump($c->plain);
var_dump($c->magic);

$c->other = array();
$c->other[] = 1;
$c->other[] = true;
$c->other[0] = 2;
var_dump($c->other);

$c->more = array();
$d = $c->more;
$d[] = 1;
var_dump($d);
var_dump($c->more);