Re: Inherit Methods

Norbert Wenzel wrote:

Is it possible to run inherited methods in the scope of the child class? In my case I have an abstract class called 'Company' and some child classes. There is a non abstract function in 'Company' which prints '$this->phoneList'. That function should be the same to all child classes, without rewritting it in every class. I call the printing method via the child class like $childObject->printPhoneList(); The call seems to be handed over to the parent class 'Company' which is fine. But the $this points to the phoneList of the abstract parent class. So the phoneList in the abstract class seems to be unset, since i have set the phone list in the child class. Here's a short example, showing what I mean: <?php abstract class AbstractClass {

^ seeing as you are using the abstract keyword you must be using php5.

    which supports the 'parent' keyword but that is not what you want right now...

    private $var;

      get rid of the 'private' here and replace it with 'protected'

        public function printVar() {
        echo('var: ' . $this->var . '<br>');
    }

} class ConcreteClass extends AbstractClass {

    public function __construct($var) {
        $this->var = $var;
    }
           public function printVarChild() {
        echo('var (child): ' . $this->var . '<br>');
    }

} $cl = new ConcreteClass(15); $cl->printVar(); $cl->printVarChild(); ?> Output is: var: var (child): 15 Has anyone an idea how to print the $var of the child, without copying the method in every child class? thanks in advance, Norbert