Here is some clarification about PHP inheritance – there is a lot of bad information on the net. PHP does support Multi-level inheritance. (I tested it using version 5.2.9). It does not support multiple inheritance.
This means that you cannot have one class extend 2 other classes (see the extends keyword). However, you can have one class extend another, which extends another, and so on.
Example:
<?php
class A {
// more code here
}
class B extends A {
// more code here
}
class C extends B {
// more code here
}
$someObj = new A(); // no problems
$someOtherObj = new B(); // no problems
$lastObj = new C(); // still no problems
?>
객체 상속
상속은 정착된 프로그래밍 원칙이며, PHP는 이 원칙을 객체모델에서 사용하고 있습니다. 이 원칙은 많은 클래스와 객체들을 연관짓는 방법에 영향을 미칩니다.
예를 들면, class 를 확장했을때, subcalss 는 부모의 클래스로부터 모든 public, protected 메서드를 상속받게 됩니다. 자식 클래스가 메서드를 재정의 하지 않는한, 원래 기능이 유지 됩니다.
상속은 추상화된 기능을 정의하는데 유용합니다. 그리고, 공유된 기능을 위해 비슷한 객체들마다 기능을 재정의 하는 수고를 덜어줍니다.
Note:
자동로딩이 사용되지 않는한, 클래스는 사용되기 이전에 정의되어 있어야 합니다. 클래스가 다른것으로 확장된다면, 자식 클래스 구조보다 부모클래스가 앞서 선언되어 있어야 합니다. 이 규칙은 다른 클래스과 인터페이스를 상속받는 클래스들에게도 적용됩니다.
Example #1 상속 예제
<?php
class Foo
{
public function printItem($string)
{
echo 'Foo: ' . $string . PHP_EOL;
}
public function printPHP()
{
echo 'PHP is great.' . PHP_EOL;
}
}
class Bar extends Foo
{
public function printItem($string)
{
echo 'Bar: ' . $string . PHP_EOL;
}
}
$foo = new Foo();
$bar = new Bar();
$foo->printItem('baz'); // Output: 'Foo: baz'
$foo->printPHP(); // Output: 'PHP is great'
$bar->printItem('baz'); // Output: 'Bar: baz'
$bar->printPHP(); // Output: 'PHP is great'
?>
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User Contributed Notes 18 notes
jackdracona at msn dot com ¶
14 years ago
Mohammad Istanbouly ¶
6 years ago
I think the best way for beginners to understand inheritance is through a real example so here is a simple example I can gave to you
<?php
class Person
{
public $name;
protected $age;
private $phone;
public function talk(){
//Do stuff here
}
protected function walk(){
//Do stuff here
}
private function swim(){
//Do stuff here
}
}
class Tom extends Person
{
/*Since Tom class extends Person class this means
that class Tom is a child class and class person is
the parent class and child class will inherit all public
and protected members(properties and methods) from
the parent class*/
/*So class Tom will have these properties and methods*/
//public $name;
//protected $age;
//public function talk(){}
//protected function walk(){}
//but it will not inherit the private members
//this is all what Object inheritance means
}
akashwebdev at gmail dot com ¶
8 years ago
The Idea that multiple inheritence is not supported is correct but with tratits this can be reviewed.
for e.g.
<?php
trait custom
{
public function hello()
{
echo "hello";
}
}
trait custom2
{
public function hello()
{
echo "hello2";
}
}
class inheritsCustom
{
use custom, custom2
{
custom2::hello insteadof custom;
}
}
$obj = new inheritsCustom();
$obj->hello();
?>
strata_ranger at hotmail dot com ¶
13 years ago
I was recently extending a PEAR class when I encountered a situation where I wanted to call a constructor two levels up the class hierarchy, ignoring the immediate parent. In such a case, you need to explicitly reference the class name using the :: operator.
Fortunately, just like using the 'parent' keyword PHP correctly recognizes that you are calling the function from a protected context inside the object's class hierarchy.
E.g:
<?php
class foo
{
public function something()
{
echo __CLASS__; // foo
var_dump($this);
}
}
class foo_bar extends foo
{
public function something()
{
echo __CLASS__; // foo_bar
var_dump($this);
}
}
class foo_bar_baz extends foo_bar
{
public function something()
{
echo __CLASS__; // foo_bar_baz
var_dump($this);
}
public function call()
{
echo self::something(); // self
echo parent::something(); // parent
echo foo::something(); // grandparent
}
}
error_reporting(-1);
$obj = new foo_bar_baz();
$obj->call();
// Output similar to:
// foo_bar_baz
// object(foo_bar_baz)[1]
// foo_bar
// object(foo_bar_baz)[1]
// foo
// object(foo_bar_baz)[1]
?>
jarrod at squarecrow dot com ¶
14 years ago
You can force a class to be strictly an inheritable class by using the "abstract" keyword. When you define a class with abstract, any attempt to instantiate a separate instance of it will result in a fatal error. This is useful for situations like a base class where it would be inherited by multiple child classes yet you want to restrict the ability to instantiate it by itself.
Example........
<?php
abstract class Cheese
{
//can ONLY be inherited by another class
}
class Cheddar extends Cheese
{
}
$dinner = new Cheese; //fatal error
$lunch = new Cheddar; //works!
?>
niemans at pbsolo dot nl ¶
4 years ago
Inheritance works at create time, i.e. using the keyword 'new'. Static properties confused my understanding, so in order tho show the effect of visibility to inherintence I've created a simple demo script along with some set and get magic:
<?php
class A {
private $a = 'private';
protected $b = 'protected';
public $c = 'public';
static $d = 'static';
public function __construct()
{
$this->e = 'constructed';
}
public function __set($property, $value)
{
echo ' set ' . $property . '=' . $value;
$this->$property=$value;
}
public function __get($property)
{
echo ' get ' . $property;
$this->$property = 'dynamic'; // invokes __set() !!
return $this->$property;
}
}
class B extends A
{
public function constructMe()
{
$this->e = 'constructed2';
}
}
class C extends B
{
public function __construct()
{
parent::constructMe();
}
}
echo " \n";
$a = new A();
$b = new B();
echo " \n";
echo ' B:c='.$b->c;
echo " \n";
echo ' B:d=' .$b->d;
echo " \n";
$c = new C();
echo " \n";
print_r($a);
print_r($b);
print_r($c);
print_r(A::$d);
print_r(B::$d);
print_r(C::$d);
echo 'A class: ';
$R = new reflectionclass('A');
print_r($R->getdefaultproperties());
print_r($R->getstaticproperties());
echo 'B class: ';
$R = new reflectionclass('B');
print_r($R->getdefaultproperties());
print_r($R->getstaticproperties());
?>
This outputs:
set e=constructed
B:c=public
get d set d=dynamic B:d=dynamic
set e=constructed2
A Object
(
[a:A:private] => private
[b:protected] => protected
[c] => public
[e] => constructed
)
B Object
(
[a:A:private] => private
[b:protected] => protected
[c] => public
[d] => dynamic
)
C Object
(
[a:A:private] => private
[b:protected] => protected
[c] => public
[e] => constructed2
)
staticstaticstaticA class: Array
(
[d] => static
[a] => private
[b] => protected
[c] => public
)
Array
(
[d] => static
)
B class: Array
(
[d] => static
[b] => protected
[c] => public
)
Array
(
[d] => static
)
This shows how private variables ($a) are inherited, how static variables ($d) are inherited (by the class, not by the object) and that changing or adding variables in the parent ($e, $d) are not inherited by the child.
nemanja ¶
6 years ago
Even when autoloading (SPL) is used, class inheritance does not seem to work. Simply the PHP engine is unable to find parent (inherited) class. PHP 5.6 and 7.0 behave exactly same on this, which beats the purpose of autoloading.
And IMHO it's easy to fix as the autoloader is able to find all first level classes w/o problems, it just needs to follow same path recursively on parents too.
<?php
//Using default SPL autoloader, with namespaces mapping 1:1 to directory structure, with file names being all lowercase.
//This works with first level classes only, for inheritance it does NOT work, it cannot find parent classes.
spl_autoload_register();
//This is ugly but working code if you want to be able to autoload parent classes too.
spl_autoload_register(function ($class){
require_once __DIR__ . '/' . strtolower(str_replace('\\', '/', $class) . '.php');
});
gino dot d at amail dot com ¶
7 years ago
A simple trait to create multi inheritance in php
<?php
trait tExtend {
private $objectExtend = [];
final public function extend() {
foreach ($objects = func_get_args() as &$object) {
if (is_object($object) && !$object instanceOf self) {
$this->objectExtend[] = $object;
if (is_callable([$object, 'syncExtend']))
$object->syncExtend($this, $objects);
}
}
}
final public function syncExtend(&$object = null, array $objects) {
if (is_object($object) && !$object instanceOf self && !in_array($object, $this->objectExtend))
$this->objectExtend[] = $object;
foreach ($objects as &$object)
if (is_object($object) && !$object instanceOf self && !in_array($object, $this->objectExtend))
$this->objectExtend[] = $object;
return $this;
}
final public function __call($method, $args) {
if (method_exists($this, $method))
return $this->{$method}(... $args);
else {
foreach ($this->objectExtend as $i => &$object) {
if (method_exists($object, $method))
return $object->{$method}(... $args);
}
}
throw new \Exception('Call to undefined method ' . get_called_class() . '::' . $method . '()');
}
final public function __get($key) {
if (array_key_exists($key, $this))
return $this->{$key};
foreach ($this->objectExtend as &$object) {
if (array_key_exists($key, $object))
return $object->{$key};
}
trigger_error('Undefined property: ' . get_called_class() . '::$' . $key, E_USER_NOTICE);
}
final public function __isset($key) {
if (array_key_exists($key, $this))
return true;
foreach ($this->objectExtend as &$object) {
if (array_key_exists($key, $object))
return true;
}
return false;
}
}
/*************/
class F {
public $relationship = 'Sister';
}
class M {
public $relationship = 'Brother';
}
class A extends M {
use tExtend;
}
class B extends F {
use tExtend;
function getName() {
return 'B';
}
}
class C extends F {
use tExtend;
function getName() {
return 'C';
}
}
class D extends M {
use tExtend;
}
class Z {
use tExtend;
function getParent() {
return 'Z';
}
function __construct() {
$this->extend(... func_get_args());
}
}
$a = new A;
$b = new B;
$c = new C;
$d = new D;
$z = new Z($a, $b, $c, $d);
$d->extend($a); // Change nothing
$a->varA = 'A';
$c->varA = 'C';
echo $a->getParent(); // print Z
echo $a->getName(); // print B
echo $b->getName(); // print B
echo $c->getName(); // print C
echo $d->getName(); // print B
echo $z->getName(); // print B
echo $z->varA; // print A
echo $c->varA; // print C
?>
shaun at slickdesign dot com dot au ¶
6 years ago
Similar to functions, unless they are in conditionals, it is possible to define classes anywhere within your script and they still generate instances.
It is also possible to define child classes before the parent class, however, this seems to act the same way as a conditional, meaning that you need to define these classes before they can be used.
Examples:
- Standard usage (A and B are always accessible)
<?php
class A {}
class B extends A {}
var_dump( class_exists( 'A' ), class_exists( 'B' ) );
// Outputs: bool(true) bool(true)
?>
- End of file declaration (A and B are still always accessible, even if you have a return or exit before it)
<?php
var_dump( class_exists( 'A' ), class_exists( 'B' ) );
// Outputs: bool(true) bool(true)
die;
class A {}
class B extends A {}
?>
- Child before parent declaration (B is not accessible until it has been defined)
<?php
var_dump( class_exists( 'A' ), class_exists( 'B' ) );
// Outputs: bool(true) bool(false)
class B extends A {}
var_dump( class_exists( 'B' ) );
// Outputs: bool(true)
class A {}
?>
- Conditional definition (Same as child before parent example above)
<?php
var_dump( class_exists( 'A' ), class_exists( 'B' ) );
// Outputs: bool(true) bool(false)
if ( ! class_exists( 'B' ) ) {
class B extends A {}
}
var_dump( class_exists( 'B' ) );
// Outputs: bool(true)
class A {}
Sam Tigall ¶
4 years ago
Overriding a method which is called from base class works like this:
<?php
class Foo
{
public function printItem($string)
{
echo 'Foo: ' . $string;
}
public function printPHP($string)
{
$this->printItem($string);
}
}
class Bar extends Foo
{
public function printItem($string)
{
echo 'Bar: ' . $string ;
}
}
$foo = new Foo();
$bar = new Bar();
$foo->printPHP('baz'); //Foo: baz
$bar->printPHP('baz'); //Bar: baz
?>
Anonymous ¶
5 years ago
PHP7 gives you a warning if you redeclare a function in a child class with different parameters. For example:
class foo {
function print($text='') {
print text;
}
}
class bar extends foo {
function print($text1='',$text2='') {
print text1.text2
}
}
will give a PHP Warning: Declaration of bar::print($text1 = '', $text2 = '') should be compatible with foo::print($text= '').
sibian0218 at gmail dot com ¶
5 years ago
I've noticed one thing concerning inheritance...
When declaring an abstract class with a private method,
which is overridden by a sub-class, private takes precedence over public for child class...
(in the case you're redeclaring a method with a different signature in fact).
Hope this helps
ghoucine at gmail dot com ¶
9 years ago
For multiple single inheretance to work the order of class definition is very important if you're going up more than two levels in inheretence.
This won't work:
<?php
class A extends B {}
class B extends C {}
class C {}
$A = new A;
?>
Running the code above will spit a fatal error (Fatal Error:Class 'B' not found)
A change in class definition order will fix this:
<?php
class A extends B {}
class C {}
class B extends C {}
$A = new A;
?>
If you're goin up just one level in inhertance though there shouldn't be any problem. So this code works too:
<?php
class A extends B {}
class B {}
$A = new A;
?>
I have no explanation as to why this is the case though.
tim at web dot com ¶
6 years ago
[Document:Main.php]
<?php
//
include("person.php");
include("student.php");
include("teacher.php");
//-----Creating a object of the class "teacher"--------
$t1=new teacher();
$t1->name="Mustermann";
$t1->forename="Max";
$t1->email="max@mustermann.com";
echo $t1->name.", ".$t1->forename.": ".$t1->email;
$t1->ID();
//-----Creating a object of the class "student"--------
$s1=new student();
$s1->name="Kevin";
$s1->forename="Alpha";
echo $s1->name."; ".$s1->forename;
$s1->ID();
?>
//-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[Document:person.php]
<?php
class person
{
//Attribute
public $name;
public $forename;
}
?>
//-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[Document:teacher.php]
<?php
class teacher extends person /
{
//Attribute
public $email;
//Function
public function ID()
{
echo "<p>I am a teacher</p>";
}
}
?>
//-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[Document:student.php]
<?php
class student extends Person
{
//Attribute
//Functionen
public function ID()
{
echo"<p>I am a student</p>";
}
}
?>
OZ ¶
13 years ago
Model for Mixins pattern:
<?php
interface IMixinsCaller
{
public function __mixin_get_property($property);
public function __mixin_set_property($property, $value);
public function __mixin_call($method, $value);
}
abstract class MixinsCaller implements IMixinsCaller
{
protected $mixins = array();
public function __call($name, $arguments)
{
if (!empty($this->mixins))
{
foreach ($this->mixins as $mixin)
{
if (method_exists($mixin, $name))
{
return call_user_func_array(array($mixin, $name), $arguments);
}
}
}
trigger_error('Non-existent method was called in class '.__CLASS__.': '.$name, E_USER_WARNING);
}
public function __mixin_get_property($property)
{
if (property_exists($this, $property))
{
return $this->$property;
}
trigger_error('Non-existent property was get in class '.__CLASS__.': '.$property, E_USER_WARNING);
}
public function __mixin_set_property($property, $value)
{
if (property_exists($this, $property))
{
return $this->$property = $value;
}
trigger_error('Non-existent property was set in class '.__CLASS__.': '.$property, E_USER_WARNING);
}
public function __mixin_call($method, $value)
{
if (method_exists($this, $method))
{
return call_user_func_array(array($this, $method), $value);
}
trigger_error('Non-existent method was called in class '.__CLASS__.': '.$method, E_USER_WARNING);
}
public function AddMixin($mixin)
{
$this->mixins[] = $mixin;
}
}
abstract class Mixin
{
/** @var IMixinsCaller $parent_object */
private $parent_object;
public function __construct(IMixinsCaller $parent_object)
{
$this->parent_object = $parent_object;
}
public function __get($property)
{
return $this->parent_object->__mixin_get_property($property);
}
public function __set($property, $value)
{
return $this->parent_object->__mixin_set_property($property, $value);
}
public function __call($method, $value)
{
return $this->parent_object->__mixin_call($method, $value);
}
}
?>
clintonabco at gmail dot com ¶
6 years ago
This page is not clear about the nature and specifics of Object Inheritance especially that you can only make the visibility of an inherited method or property weaker and not stronger within the subclass that is inheriting these from its parent class.
Example:
<?php
class Test1
{
protected $a_property = "This is a property";
protected function printProperty()
{
echo $this->a_property;
}
}
class Test2 extends Test1
{
private $b_property = "This is another property";
private function printProperty()
{
echo $this->b_property;
}
}
$test2 = new Test2();
?>
This code produces a PHP Fatal error with message:
PHP Fatal error: Access level to Test2::printProperty() must be protected (as in class Test1) or weaker
So if you inherit a protected method and you want redeclare it in your subclass then you can either declare its visibility as protected or public. If public is inherited then it stays public.
Here is the working version of the code snippet above:
<?php
class Test1
{
protected $a_property = "This is a property";
protected function printProperty()
{
echo $this->a_property;
}
}
class Test2 extends Test1
{
private $b_property = "This is another property";
public function printProperty()
{
echo $this->b_property;
}
}
$test2 = new Test2();
$test2->printProperty();
?>
To iterate what the description on the page says, subclasses inherit all protected and public properties and methods.
php at sleep is the enemy dot co dot uk ¶
14 years ago
Here's fun, an attempt to make some degree of multiple inheritance work in PHP using mixins. It's not particularly pretty, doesn't support method visibility modifiers and, if put to any meaningful purpose, could well make your call stack balloon to Ruby-on-Rails-esque proportions, but it does work.
<?php
abstract class Mix {
protected $_mixMap = array();
public function __construct(){
$this->_mixMap = $this->collectMixins($this);
}
public function __call($method, $args){
// doesn't pass scope
//return call_user_func_array(array($className, $method), $args);
// Error: Given object is not an instance of the class this method was declared in
//$method = new ReflectionMethod($className, $method);
//return $method->invokeArgs($this, $args);
$payload = $this->buildMixinPayload($this->_mixMap, $method, $args);
if(!$payload) throw new Exception('Method ' . $method . ' not found');
list($mixinMethod, list($method, $args)) = $payload;
return $this->$mixinMethod($method, $args);
}
protected function collectMixins($class){
static $found = array();
static $branch = array();
if(empty($branch)) $branch[] = get_class($this);
$mixins = array();
foreach(array_reverse(get_class_methods($class)) as $method){
if(preg_match('/^mixin(\w+)$/', $method, $matches)){
$className = $matches[1];
if(in_array($className, $branch))
throw new Exception('Circular reference detected ' . implode(' > ', $branch) . ' > ' . $className);
if(!in_array($className, $found)){
if(!class_exists($className)) throw new Exception('Class ' . $className . ' not found');
// populate props from mixin class
foreach(get_class_vars($className) as $key => $value){
if(!property_exists($this, $key)) $this->$key = $value;
}
$found[] = $branch[] = $className;
$mixins[$className] = $this->collectMixins($className);
}
$branch = array(get_class($this));
}
}
return $mixins;
}
protected function buildMixinPayload($mixins, $method, $args){
foreach($mixins as $className => $parents){
$mixinMethod = 'mixin' . $className;
if(method_exists($className, $method)) return array($mixinMethod, array($method, $args));
if(!empty($parents) && $return = $this->buildMixinPayload($parents, $method, $args)){
return array($mixinMethod, $return);
}
}
return false;
}
}
?>
msg2maciej at aol dot com ¶
13 years ago
PHP supports single class inheritance. My bare idea on accessing protected methods with power of abstracts and sort of "multi-class inheritance SIMULATION":
<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
abstract class Base {
abstract protected function __construct ();
abstract protected function hello_left ();
abstract protected function hello_right ();
}
abstract class NotImplemented_Left extends Base {
protected function hello_right () {
echo 'well, wont see that'; }}
abstract class NotImplemented_Right extends Base {
protected function hello_left () {
echo 'well, wont see that'; }}
class Left extends NotImplemented_Left {
protected function __construct () { # limited visibility, no access from "outside"
echo __CLASS__.'::protected __construct'. "\n"; }
protected function hello_left () { # limited visibility, no access from "outside"
echo 'protected hello_left in ' . __CLASS__ . "\n"; }}
class Right extends NotImplemented_Right {
protected function __construct () { # limited visibility, no access from "outside"
echo __CLASS__.'::protected __construct'. "\n"; }
protected function hello_right () { # limited visibility, no access from "outside"
echo 'protected hello_right in ' . __CLASS__ . "\n"; }
protected function hello_left () {
echo "wont see that, and easy to get rid of it from here\n"; }}
class Center extends Base {
private $left;
private $right;
public function __construct () {
echo 'welcome in ' . __CLASS__ . "\n";
echo 'Center::'; $this->left = new Left;
echo 'Center::'; $this->right = new Right;
echo " oh and\n";
$this->hello_left();
$this->hello_right();
}
public function hello_left () { # calling class Left
echo __CLASS__.'::'; $this->left->hello_left(); }
public function hello_right () { # calling class Right
echo __CLASS__.'::'; $this->right->hello_right(); }
}
$c = new Center;
?>
Produces:
welcome in Center
Center::Left::protected __construct
Center::Right::protected __construct
oh and
Center::protected hello_left in Left
Center::protected hello_right in Right
