Posted by mountain.dog@gmail.com on 03/21/07 19:43

Thank you Toby. Your brief example helped clarify a lot. I appreciate
your help. One question - what's the difference between these two
instances?
$displayb = new b();
versus
$displayb = new b;
thanks!

On Mar 21, 11:27 am, Toby A Inkster <usenet200...@tobyinkster.co.uk>
wrote:
> mountain.dog wrote:
> > $display = new a;
> > $displayb = new b($a);
> > $displayb->someOtherMethod();
>
> You're misunderstanding what inheritance is; so the second line of the
> above excerpt doesn't do what you think it does. Replace those three
> lines with:
>
> $displayb = new b();
> $displayb->someMethod();
> $displayb->someOtherMethod();
>
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