Posted by Jacob Atzen on 05/28/05 17:13

On 2005-05-28, lkrubner@geocities.com <lkrubner@geocities.com> wrote:
> The method is in the parent class yet I'd forgotten to call parent::
> in the constructor of the child class. It seems to me that
> method_exists was testing true, though the method was not truly
> available, and then the code died. Adding parent:: to the constructor
> of the child solved the problem. Is this a bug in PHP?

You shouldn't have to call the parent class to get access to its
methods. If class B extends class A then all methods of class A is
available in class B.

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Cheers,
- Jacob Atzen

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