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Doc Bug #13165 Definate problem with classes and included files
Submitted: 2001-09-06 02:11 UTC Modified: 2002-06-10 04:43 UTC
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From: colin at maven dot com dot au Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Documentation problem
PHP Version: 4.0.6 OS: RedHat 7.1
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2001-09-06 02:11 UTC] colin at maven dot com dot au
There is *definately* a problem in PHP 4.0.6 with classes, inheritance, and included/required files.  Here is an example:

// ======================
// test.php:

<?php

 include("children.php");

?>

// ======================

// ======================
// children.php

<?php

 include_once("parent.php");

 class Child2 extends Child1
 {

 }

 class Child1 extends Parent
 {

 }

?>

// ======================

// ======================
// parent.php

<?php

 class Parent
 {

 }

?>

// ======================

You can try this out for yourself and see what I mean.  If you bring up "test.php" in your browser, you should receive this error:

Fatal error: Class child2: Cannot inherit from undefined class child1

Why does this happen, even though all files are being included correctly?  Well, I know one way of preventing the error, and that is by re-ordering the classes in "children.php" so that Child1() is listed first.  This removes the error, **however**, if the Parent() class is NOT in a separate file, and is actually part of the same file (i.e. "children.php"), the order of the class definitions does NOT matter.  Why is this?

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 [2001-09-11 01:18 UTC] colin at maven dot com dot au
Just wondering if there has been any progress on this report?  Thanks.
 [2001-10-21 20:49 UTC] sniper@php.net
This is not a bug. Classes must be defined in order.
They can be in different order if they are in same file 
though. (Zeev can explain this better :)

Reclassified as documentation problem as this isn't 
explained anywhere.

--Jani

 [2002-01-17 17:27 UTC] eye at eye-home dot net
Isn't this the same bug as http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=13882 (and therefore solved in version 4.1.1?)

if not it still seems a bug to me: whenever A includes B and B includes C, it should not be necessary that A has to include C
 [2002-06-10 04:43 UTC] mfischer@php.net
This bug has been fixed in CVS. You can grab a snapshot of the
CVS version at http://snaps.php.net/. In case this was a documentation 
problem, the fix will show up soon at http://www.php.net/manual/.
In case this was a PHP.net website problem, the change will show
up on the PHP.net site and on the mirror sites.
Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better.


 
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