Re: Accessing child constants from base class

From:	Dan Cox	Date:	Fri, 10 Oct 2003 17:40:16 +0000
Subject:	Re: Accessing child constants from base class
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Hi Ard- Sorry, I must of misunderstood you. Yes, that would work fine. Now copy/paste the getElementName() function in the derived class to all 100's of other derived classes and wonder why you couldn't just do this with one base class function. :) Dan Cox Ard Biesheuvel wrote:

This works fine for me: abstract class Base {

        abstract function getElementName();

        function getName()
        {
                return $this->getElementName();
        }

} class Derived extends Base {

        const ElementName = 'DerivedElementName';

        function getElementName()
        {
                return ElementName;
        }

} $c = new Derived(); echo $c->getName();