note 26706 added to keyword.parent

surely hard coding the name of the parent class isn't too much of an issue - normally you would hard code the parent class in the class definition, unless you are doing something weird like: $parentclass = 'bar'; class newclass extends $parentclass { ... } $parentclass = 'foo'; class otherclass extends $parentclass { ... } not entirely sure why you'd want to do this (or if it would work), but even then you could do : eval ("$parentclass::$parentclass();"); why on earth would you need to do this? -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/keyword.parent.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+26706 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+26706 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+26706