Question

I have the following 3 classes :

class ParentClass {
    protected $myVar = array();

    function __construct() {
        var_dump($this->myVar);
    }
}

class FirstClass extends ParentClass {
    protected $myVar = array('defaultVal');
}

class SecondClass extends FirstClass {
    protected $myVar = array('anotherVal');
}

If I was to do the following:

$class = new SecondClass();

Then I would get array('anotherVal') what can I add to the construct of ParentClass so that I would actually get array('defaultVal', 'anotherVal')

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

After furthur research i found out an easy way to do it get_class_vars:

class ParentClass {
    protected $myVar = array();

    function __construct() {
        $firstClassVars = get_class_vars('FirstClass');
        $this->myVar= array_merge($this->myVar, $firstClassVars['myVar']);
        var_dump($this->myVar);
    }
}

This solves my problems…

Thanks anyway guys!