Question

I know you can extend a class when constructing it like the following:

class b extends a {
}

But is it possible to dynamically extend classes from the scripts? Such as:

$b = new b($input) extends a;

What I wish to accomplish is to extend the module differnetly wheither it’s used in admin rather than the public pages. I know I can create two different parent classes by the same name and only include one per admin or public. But my question is, is it possible to do it dynamically in PHP?

Answer 1

You can’t, but this has been requested for a few years: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=41856&edit=1

You can define the classes within an eval, but it’s more trouble than declaring the class normally.