Introduction to Inheritance
Explore the concept of inheritance in PHP object-oriented programming to reduce code duplication by reusing methods and properties from parent classes. Understand how child classes inherit and extend functionalities while maintaining encapsulation to build efficient code.
What is inheritance?
Inheritance allows us to write code once in the parent class and then use it in both parent and child classes. One of the main advantages of object-oriented programming is its ability to reduce code duplication with inheritance. Code duplication occurs when a programmer writes the same code more than once. Using inheritance, we have a parent class with its own methods and properties and a child class (or classes) that can use the code from the parent class. By using inheritance, ...