Bug #53992 [Opn->Bgs]: ambiguous property/method access

Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53992&edit=1 ID: 53992 Updated by: scottmac@php.net Reported by: msg2maciej at aol dot com Summary: ambiguous property/method access -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Type: Bug Package: *General Issues Operating System: MAC OSX PHP Version: Irrelevant Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: See previous comment. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-02-11 08:55:27] scottmac@php.net You're accessing hello() statically therefore there is no $this context. Add error_reporting(-1); to the top of your script and see all the errors. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-02-11 07:23:01] msg2maciej at aol dot com 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 this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53992&edit=1