note 24308 added to keyword.parent

Combining the above suggestions with the "Pull Up Constructor Body" refactoring from Fowler (http://www.refactoring.com/catalog/pullUpConstructorBody.html), I found an elegant way to inherit constructors in PHP. Both superclass and subclass constructors call an initialize() method, which can be inherited or overridden. For simple cases (which almost all of mine are), no calls to parent::anything are necessary using this technique. The resulting code is easy to read and understand: class Superclass { function Superclass($arg) { $this->initialize($arg); } function initialize($arg) { $this->setArg($arg); } } class Subclass extends Superclass { function Subclass($arg) { //initialize() is inherited: $this->initialize($arg); } } -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/keyword.parent.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+24308 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+24308 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+24308