How can the naming conventions for attributes in PHP classes impact the functionality of getter and setter methods?

The naming conventions for attributes in PHP classes can impact the functionality of getter and setter methods if the attribute names do not follow the camelCase convention. Getter and setter methods in PHP typically follow the convention of getAttributeName and setAttributeName, where AttributeName is the name of the attribute in camelCase. If the attribute name does not match this convention, the getter and setter methods may not work as expected. 

class User {
    private $firstName;

    public function getFirstName() {
        return $this->firstName;
    }

    public function setFirstName($firstName) {
        $this->firstName = $firstName;
    }
}

$user = new User();
$user->setFirstName("John");
echo $user->getFirstName(); // Output: John

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naming conventions attributes PHP classes getter methods setter methods

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