Question

There are lots of examples of child classes calling overridden parent methods, most commonly parent::__construct(). In these cases, however, you are actually calling the parent from a concrete method in the child itself.

Is there a way that I can recursively call a method from the child to the first ancestor, using an inherited method?

If I use parent::methodName() in my abstract parent class it causes a fatal error saying ‘Cannot access parent:: when current class scope has no parent’. Presumably this is because ‘parent’ is being evaluated relative to the abstract class itself, not the current class context.

Thanks…

Answer 1

Maybe something like this? (untested)

foreach (get_class_parents($this) as $className) {
    (new ReflectionMethod($className, __METHOD__))->invoke($this, $args...);
}

I hate when I see this kinda junk in code.