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Method Overriding and the final Keyword

Explore how to override methods in a child class to customize behavior inherited from a parent class in PHP. Understand the use of the final keyword to restrict method overriding and maintain code integrity. This lesson helps you apply inheritance principles to reduce code duplication while controlling method behavior.

Apart from having its own properties and methods, a child class can override the properties and methods of the parent class.

Overriding properties and methods

When we override a class’s properties and methods, we use the child class to rewrite a method or property that exists in the parent class but assign it a different value or code.

Example

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