Question

Here’s some working code:

class A {
    public $Foo;

    public function GetFoo() {
        $this->Foo = 'Bar';
    }
}

class B extends A {
    function __construct() {
        $this->GetFoo();
        echo $this->Foo;
    }
}

$b = new B(); // Outputs "Bar"

Is there any way I can make this “prettier” (i.e. without the A::GetFoo() method)? I would’ve thought that wrapping the population of the $this->Foo inside a A::__construct() would work, but it doesn’t.

Just to wrap it up, here’s what I want: class A instantiates my DB object and that object is usable for every child class of A.

Answer 1

Perhaps you’re overriding the parent’s constructor without calling in from B?

class A {

    protected $Foo = null;

    public function __construct() {
        $this->Foo = 'Bar';
    }

}

class B extends A {

    public function __construct() {
        parent::__construct();
        echo $this->Foo;
    }

}