Re: calling parent class method from the outside

From:	admin	Date:	Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:41:28 +0000
Subject:	Re: calling parent class method from the outside
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Jochem Maas wrote:

another solution for the OP might be (although I think it goes against all design principles): class A { function foo() {
    echo "achoo\n";
} } class B extends A { function foo() {
    echo "cough\n";
} function __call($meth, $args) {
    $func = array(parent, strtolower(str_replace("parent","", $meth)));
    if (is_callable($func))
      return call_user_func_array($func, $args);
} } $b = new B; $b->foo(); $b->parentFoo();

Barring the s/parent/get_parent_class/ the idea is really really cute, thanks. Beautiful. Heck, maybe I'll even hack the code to do it like that... after some grace period. P.S.: I thought calling array('classname', 'method') only worked for static methods? It turns out there's an implied $this being passed around?