In the .m file start a new interface with a different category above the implementation. The name of the category doesn’t matter, but people often use “private” or “Private” or something:

@interface FooClass(Private)
- (void) privateBarMethod;
@end

@implementation FooClass {
…

It’s a bit hackish, but at least you can specify the methods out of the main interface and still deal with the method as normal. Of course there’s nothing special about this “private” interface, it’s just a category, and any object could still send a message with performSelector: etc.

I also agree with richard: Java is a cool language. The coolest feature is the . operator. I do not like -> ! And the object-orientation-stacked-on-top-of-a-procedural-architecture is in my opinion the biggest problem for PHP. Rewrite it… and then remarket it, thats my advise for ZEND.

Well… here at my company I am forced to use PHP for everything. But I don’t. I started to mix bash with python for systems engineering purposes. And then I was told that Python was gay and PHP was much better. I was like: … the fukk?! Now imagine my supervisor’s reaction when he found out that I wrote services in Java to keep our servers interconnected in case of a system failure. He was not amused! But on the other hand: he cant code!

Peace

Also About the file including you can use PHP Auto Load to load your classes with out including the files.

In the end there is no or bad programming language. It is all on the developer

PHP/Java Quality is depends upon their uses in our apps.

Now-a-days PHP is high growthing language that can runs even iPhone apps too.

So both are having them own individual quality.

But in Maintenance concern, Java is preferable for large scale apps.
but PHP can also do it with classes and extending..

We are doing Web Development using .net, PHP, Java, XML languages. Among them
PHP is best of us.

Our Company Website :www.webdesign001.net

I’ve been “forced” to program in php for 2 years now, and I’ve hardly ever run into code that isn’t a global loving procedural mess! PHP developers write bad code, and it’s because PHP is too loose…

I’m now trying to work on some Google engine apps in my spare time and retrain myself into using java! PHP is horrible.