Hi all, I am a bit puzzled by the way PHP treates variables that have the same name in a base class and a child class. It seems to me that if a child class and its parent both have a variable with the same name, then they should be different variables. Instead, the example below indicates that they is only one variable : ---- class base { var $shared; function base() {$this->shared = "base";} function test() {echo("\$shared in base : " . $this->shared . "<br>\n");} }
class child extends base { var $shared; function child(){$this->base(); $this->shared = "child";} function test() { echo ("\$shared in child : " . $this->shared . "<br>\n"); parent::test(); } } $the_child = new child(); $the_child->test(); ---- I would have expected the output to be $shared in child : child $shared in base : base instead I have $shared in child : child $shared in base : child Is there something I don't understand ? Regards, Alain Dresse [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]