Bug #53992 [NEW]: ambiguous property/method access

From: Operating system: MAC OSX PHP version: Irrelevant Package: *General Issues Bug Type: Bug Bug description:ambiguous property/method access Description: ------------ I'm not sure if this is a bug. If you look in code why protected method hello() can be accessed and property $this->var not, from that method? PHP 5.3.3 Test script: --------------- <?php abstract class abstract_class { abstract protected function hello(); } class A extends abstract_class { private $B; protected $var; function __construct () { $this->var = 'Undefined property??'; $this->B = new B(__CLASS__); } protected function hello() { echo 'accessing '.__CLASS__.'::protected method - hello()'.PHP_EOL; echo $this->var; }} class B extends abstract_class { function __construct ( $class_A ) { $class_A::hello(); } protected function hello(){} } new A; ?> Expected result: ---------------- access $this->var , look into script. -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53992&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53992&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53992&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (trunk): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53992&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53992&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53992&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53992&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53992&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53992&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53992&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53992&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53992&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53992&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53992&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53992&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53992&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53992&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53992&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53992&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53992&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53992&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=53992&r=mysqlcfg