You can call methods from a classes's parents like so
class foo {
protected method bar() {
echo "in foo!";
}
}
class foobar extends foo {
public function bar() {
parent::bar();
}
}
$fb = new foobar();
$fb->bar(); will output "in foo!";
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Nathan Rixham <nrixham@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Stuart wrote:
>
>> 2009/5/24 phphelp -- kbk <phphelp@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>>> If so, can the bar_handler->bar_toast() function call a function in the
>>> container class (foo_handler)? "Parent" is used in some OOP languages for
>>> this type of hierarchy, but not PHP. I have fooled around with the scope
>>> resolution operator, but either that doesn't do it or I can't nail the
>>> syntax.
>>>
>>> Anyone care to illuminate this for me?
>>>
>>
>> I've never heard of this being possible in any language, never mind
>> PHP. The parent keyword you mention refers to the parent class not the
>> container, and works just as well in PHP as in other languages. Any
>> OOP implementation that allows a class to call functions in a
>> container class would be breaking one of the cardinal rules of OOP.
>>
>> -Stuart
>>
>>
> no offence but it smacks a bit of bad design tbh - however one possibility
> is to inject a reference to the container class instance in to the child
>
> $this->bar_handler = new bar_handler( $this );
>
>
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