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Why does PHP allow protected and private methods to be made public via an override in subclasses?
From some brief fiddling about, I find I get an error when overriding superclass methods in a subclass when I do the following:
Override a protected superclass method with a private subclass method
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Why is the amount of visibility on methods and attributes important?
Why shouldn't one leave all methods and attributes accessible from anywhere (i.e. public)?
Can you give me an example of a problem I can run into if I declared an attribute as public?
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Access private data member from a subclass
I would like to declare a data member of a superclass, private:
public abstract class superclass {
private int verySensitive;
abstract int setVerySensitive(int val); // must be overriden by ...
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Encapsulating and inheriting methods
I'm wondering if it's possible to encapsulate the methods of a class, but then expose them within a consuming class. For example (JFTR, I know this code is wrong)
class Consumer{
public ...
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