Inheritance and visibility - PHP
inheritance, php
Solution
Probably becuase `testPrivate` is, as the name already suggests, a private method and won't be inherited / overwritten by class inheritance.
On the php.net manual page you probably got that code from it explicitely states that `We can redeclare the public and protected method, but not private`
So, what exactly happens is the following: The child class will not redeclare the method `testPrivate` but instead creates it's own version in the "scope" if the child object only. As `test()` is defined in the parent class, it will access the parents `testPrivate`.
If you would redeclare the `test` function in the child class, it should access the childs`? testPrivate()` method.
Problem
I have difficulties in understanding why we get the output of this code: ``` <?php class Bar { public function test() { $this->testPrivate(); $this->testPublic(); } public function testPublic() { echo "Bar::testPublic\n"; } private function testPrivate() { echo "Bar::testPrivate\n"; } } class Foo extends Bar { public function testPublic() { echo "Foo::testPublic\n"; } private function testPrivate() { echo "Foo::testPrivate\n"; } } $myFoo = new foo(); $myFoo->test(); ?> ``` So Foo extends Bar. $myfoo is an obect of the class Foo. Foo doesn't have a method, called test(), so it extends it from its parent Bar. But why the result of test() is ``` Bar::testPrivate Foo::testPublic ``` Can you please explain me why the first isn't Foo::testPrivate, when this parent's method is overridden in the child? Thank you very much in advance!