What are Magic Methods in PHP?

• Magic methods are the members functions that is available to all the instance of class
• Magic methods always starts with “__”. Eg. __construct
• All magic methods needs to be declared as public
• To use magic method they should be defined within the class or program scope

Various Magic Methods used in PHP 5 are:

• __construct()
• __destruct()
• __set()
• __get()
• __call()
• __toString()
• __sleep()
• __wakeup()
• __isset()
• __unset()
• __autoload()
• __clone()

Refer: http://www.hiteshagrawal.com/php/exploring-magic-methods-in-php-5