Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 10/10/05 22:55

Baptiste Pillot wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> With php4 I did the following in class initialisation :
>
> class base_class {
>
> function modify_polymorphic($otherclass){
> $this=new $otherclass();
> }
>
> function other_function(){
> echo "Base method";
> }
>
> }
>
> class herited_class extends base_class {
>
> function other_function(){
> echo "Herited method";
> }
>
> }
>
> $base=new base_class();
> $base->modify_polymorphic("herited_class");
> $base->other_function();
>
> This will echo "Herited method" in PHP 4.
> But in PHP 5 it does not wand to work at all.
> PHP interpreter says :
>
> Fatal error: Cannot re-assign $this in scriptname.php on line 10

That is correct. It's never been valid to reassign $this. But previous
versions of PHP let it by.


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