Question

Actually,

This is working fine.. but i want the parent value.
not a child value..

<?php
    class Fruit{
        protected $parentproperty = "parentvalue";// this is parent value       
    }

    class Orange extends Fruit{
        protected $parentproperty = "child value";// here i mentioned once again        
        function showParentProperty(){
            return self::$this->parentproperty;
        }


    }
    $obj = new Orange;
    echo $obj->showParentProperty();

    //conclusion:
    // i want to get the parent value not child. its working fine . but it's displaying chid value


?>

Answer 1

If what you mean is this:

class Fruit {
    protected $parentproperty = "parent value";
}

class Orange extends Fruit{
    protected $parentproperty = "child value";
    function showParentProperty(){
        return $this->parentproperty; // corrected syntax here
    }
}

Then there is no way to do what you want because all nonstatic class properties in PHP are effectively virtual.

You could only use the parent keyword if the parent property was static, like this:

class Fruit {
    static $parentproperty = "parent value";
}

If we ‘re talking about an instance property, then the only thing you can do is use another name for the child property.