Question

I want to know how can i call constructor of super parent class from Nth (2nd or 3rd or Any) sub class.

class a{
    public function __construct(){
        echo "<br>In constructor of class A <br>";
    }
}
class b extends a {
    public function __construct(){
        echo "<br>In constructor of class B <br>";
    }
}
class c extends b {
    public function __construct(){
        parent::__construct();
        echo "<br>In constructor of class C <br>";
    }       
}
$obj = new c;

What changes i need to make in constructor of class C above where parent’s constructor is being called. Parent:: __construct(); referes to consructor of Class B where as i need to call constructor of class A from class C.

Answer 1

There is no way for you to call class a‘s constructor from class c using the parent reference since there is no functionality provided to things such as parent::parent::etc.

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On another note: what you are doing kind of defeats the purpose of inheritance.. class c shouldn’t be aware of the fact that it’s base actually inherits class a.

If class b wanted class a‘s constructor to be run it should have implemented this, which yields the fact that if class c wants to call class a‘s constructor it should inherit from class a, not class b.

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Hey, I wanna live on the edge – stop telling me what I cannot do!!one

Well, if you really want to hack your way around this you can explicitly call class a‘s constructor using the below:

class c extends b { 
  public function __construct(){
    a::__construct ();
  }    
}