Overview

Add getters for all protected model variables since they are currently being accessed directly, which is not the intended pattern. Making them public is a bad idea because they can be modified in the code unintentionally. They should be changed to private with a getter, then calling code should be refactored to use the getter.

Background

This was identified as a follow-up task from PR #4485 (Update to CodeIgniter 4.7.2).

Tasks

• Audit all models for protected variables that are being accessed directly from outside the class
• Change those variables from protected to private
• Add appropriate getter methods for each variable
• Refactor all calling code to use the new getters
• Add tests to verify behavior is unchanged

References

• PR: Update to CodeIgniter 4.7.2 #4485
• Requested by: @objecttothis