#40159 [NEW]: Cannot access protected property

From: dominik dot bulaj at gmail dot com Operating system: Debian PHP version: 5.2.0 PHP Bug Type: Class/Object related Bug description: Cannot access protected property Description: ------------ I got 3 classes: abstract class BlogApi { protected $blogUrl = false; // other properties public function setup($blogUrl, $username, $password, $blogId = 1) { $this->blogUrl = $blogUrl; $this->username = $username; $this->password = $password; $this->blogId = $blogId; return $this; } // rest of methods } abstract class BloggerApi extends BlogApi { // some methods specyfic for BloggerApi } class WordPress extends BloggerApi { // some methods public function publish() { return $this->publishToBlog(rtrim($this->blogUrl, '/').'/xmlrpc.php'); } } Now when I start with: $wp = new WordPress; $wp->setup('some_url', 'usr_name', 'pwd', 1); // another method to set-up post subject & body $wp->publish(); I got error: Fatal error: Cannot access protected property WordPress::$blogUrl in .... Strange is, that code worked well in PHP 5.1.6-5 on Debian. Actual result: -------------- Fatal error: Cannot access protected property WordPress::$blogUrl in ... -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=40159&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40159&r=trysnapshot44 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40159&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40159&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40159&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40159&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40159&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40159&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40159&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40159&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40159&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40159&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40159&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40159&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40159&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40159&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40159&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40159&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40159&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40159&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=40159&r=mysqlcfg