On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 5:52 AM, Ashley Sheridan <ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Hi All, > > I know that a class can only inherit from one other single class in PHP, > but how would I go about simulating a multiple class inheritance? For > example, if I had several small classes that dealt with things like form > generation, navbar generation, etc, how could I create a class in which > these all existed? > > Or am I thinking about this the wrong way? Should I have keep the > smaller classes, and have one larger object containing instances of each > as and how are necessary? > > I've used classes before, but I'm fairly new to class inheritance, and > more particularly, the complex inheritance like I describe here. > you should study the concept of composition as it pertains to OOP. also, there are several threads in the archives regarding multiple inheritance in PHP. -nathan
