Visibilidade
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
$lunch = new Cheddar; //works!
?>
Object Inheritance
Inheritance is a well-esablished programming principle, and PHP makes use of this principle in its object model. This principle will affect the way many classes and objects relate to one another.
For example, when you extend a class, the subclass inherits all of the public and protected methods from the parent class. Unless a class overrides those methods, they will retain their original functionality.
This is useful for defining and abstracting functionality, and permits the implementation of additional functionality in similar objects without the need to reimplement all of the shared functionality.
Exemplo #1 Inheritance Example
<?php
class foo
{
public function printItem($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 NotesObject Inheritance
jarrod at squarecrow dot com
27-Oct-2009 02:01
27-Oct-2009 02:01