Posted by Rik Wasmus on 01/19/08 23:39

On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:32:16 +0100, Johannes Permoser <ee_pp@yahoo.de>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> i'va got a class 'Page'. One of it members is an instance of a template
> engine. The Page-class has a method render() which calls the functions
> read(), transform(), transport() and starts the template engine.
>
> Now I want to reuse the Page class for a more specialized page
> 'ImagePage'. So: ImagePage extends Page. This Page contains an extra
> picture and therefore needs to call image() before starting the template
> engine. How do i smartly integrate that call into the Page::render()
> function.
>
> I could override the whole funtion, but then i'd have to copy and paste
> the whole code for the calls of read(), transform(), transport()?
> What's the professional way here?


class ImagePage extends Page{
function render($arg){
$this->image();
parent::render($arg);
}
}

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Rik Wasmus

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