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Understanding Inheritance in PHP

The document describes a PHP class named 'Percentage' that calculates the area of a rectangle using its length and width properties. It also explains the concept of inheritance in PHP, detailing how a derived class can inherit properties and methods from a base class, and provides an example with a 'college' base class and a 'student' derived class. Key points include access levels of properties (public, protected, private) and the use of the 'extends' keyword for establishing class relationships.

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Understanding Inheritance in PHP

The document describes a PHP class named 'Percentage' that calculates the area of a rectangle using its length and width properties. It also explains the concept of inheritance in PHP, detailing how a derived class can inherit properties and methods from a base class, and provides an example with a 'college' base class and a 'student' derived class. Key points include access levels of properties (public, protected, private) and the use of the 'extends' keyword for establishing class relationships.

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Create a class as “Percentage” with two properties length & width.

Calculate area of rectangle for two objects.


<?php

class Percentage

public $length;

public $width;

public $a;

function area($l,$w)

$this->length=$l;

$this->width=$w;

$this->a=$this->length*$this->width;

echo "Area of rectangle = " . $this->a;

$p1=new Percentage();

$p1->area(2,3);

$p2=new Percentage();

$p2->area(5,6);

?>
Inheritance:

1. It is the process of inheriting (sharing) properties and methods of base class


in its child class.
2. Inheritance provides reusability of code in a program.
3. PHP uses extends keyword to establish relationship between two classes.
4. Syntax :
class derived_class_name extends base_class_name

Class body

- derived_class_name is the name of new class which is also known as child class.
- base_class_name is the name of existing class which is also known as parent
class.

5. A derived class can access properties of base class and also can have its own
properties.

6. Properties defined as public in base class can be accessed inside as well as


outside of the class but properties defined as protected in base class can be
accessed only inside its derived class.

7. Private members of class cannot be inherited.

8. Example :

<?php

class college //BASE CLASS

public $name="ABC College";


protected $code=7;

class student extends college // derived class

public $sname="s-xyz";

public function display()

echo "College name=" .$this->name;

echo "<br>College code=" .$this->code;

echo "<br>Student name=" .$this->sname;

$s1=new student ();

$s1->display ();

?>

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