Inheritance
Explore the concept of inheritance in PHP object-oriented programming. Understand how derived classes inherit properties and methods from base classes, override inherited methods, and how constructors are managed. This lesson helps you grasp essential inheritance principles to create reusable and maintainable PHP code.
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What is Inheritance
Inheritance is a very useful and popular concept that enhances the object-oriented programming experience. It allows a programmer to create and define classes that can inherit and build upon functionalities already present in existing classes without having to duplicate a lot of the code.
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Provides a way to create a new class from an existing class.
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The new class is a specialized version of the existing class.
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Allows the new class to override or redefine inherited methods from the existing class to perform ...