Hi All, I have started reading a couple of books about PHP 5 and whilst most of it is comprehensible even to me :-), I fail to understand WHY there is such a thing as an abstract class or method? I think I understand what it is: A class that can't itself be instantiated, only inherited from, or a method that describes itself only in terms of what properties it accepts but no implementation detail. But could someone explain why I would want to use this? I'm sure it is very useful but I can't quite see the benefit... Thanks in advance Al -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php