Re: Fwd: Re: [PHP] Private and protected variables in PHP 5?

Andi, > However, if you inherit from this class the new class does not know any of > the parents' private members and therefore doesn't error out. This is the > correct way of handling it because private members should be hidden to > inheriting classes. When you say "hidden", do you mean that it still exists? That is, in the code example there's a private $Name for the dog class, and I set a new $Name in the code. Would that mean there was a private $Name and a public $Name? If so, I imagine that all functions that had access to the private $Name would use it, and all functions that didn't have access would use the public $Name. Sounds kinda confusing! Is this correct? --Paul