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I have used faking of multiple inheritance as given in Can I extend a class using more than 1 class in PHP?

Notice that class A actually extends class B and faking is done for extending from class C.

It was working fine until I needed an attribute set in a function of class C to be available in class A. Consider a little edited version of that code where I call a function of class C from inside a function of class A :-

//Class A
class A extends B
{
  private $c;

  public function __construct()
  {
    $this->c = new C;
  }

  // fake "extends C" using magic function
  public function __call($method, $args)
  {
    return call_user_func_array(array($this->c, $method), $args);
  }

//calling a function of class C from inside a function of class A
  public function method_from_a($s) {
     $this->method_from_c($s);
     echo $this->param; //Does not work
  }

//calling a function of class B from inside a function of class A
  public function another_method_from_a($s) {
     $this->method_from_b($s);
     echo $this->another_param; //Works
  }
}

//Class C

class C {
    public function method_from_c($s) {
        $this->param = "test";
    }
}

//Class B
class B {
    public function method_from_b($s) {
        $this->another_param = "test";
    }
}


$a = new A;
$a->method_from_a("def");
$a->another_method_from_a("def");

So, an attribute set in a function of class C is not available afterwards in class A but if set in class B, it is available in class A. What adjustment am I missing so as to make setting of attributes in the fake parent class work like real? An attribute set in fake parent's function should be available in all the classes of the hierarchy like in normal case.

Thanks

Solved
I added the magic function __get() in class A and it worked.

public function __get($name)
{   
   return $this->c->$name;
}
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That will never work, because 'param' is not a property of A: it is in c, which is a property of A.

What you need to do is define the magic methods such as __set and __get, which parallel __call for properties.

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  • thanks.. I am sure this is what I was missing. Do I need to define those functions in class A in my example? If you could give a small code example... – Sandeepan Nath Nov 10 '10 at 11:30
  • ok I solved it. Check my update. Thanks for the direction. I have now learnt a little about magic functions – Sandeepan Nath Nov 10 '10 at 12:50