Description:
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I know that this is a 'no no', but i feel that the bug here was not bogus:
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=37711

I disagree with the response. $this is used in the current class, whereas parent:: is used to access properties and methods of the parent class. errno and error are properties of the parent class, NOT of $this class. Using $this to access the property of parent:: is not inheritance, it is more closely related to symbiosis or polymorphism, or something. And besides, how is parent:: automatically giving $this new properties called errno and error? Shouldn't that only be done via a set/get type function? EX:

function GetErrno(){
    $this->errno=parent::errno;
}

function GetError(){
    $this->error=parent::error;
}

The fact that this is automatically available in the scope of $this is NOT inheritance, imho, it is a BUG.

Alex Grim


Reproduce code:
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class dbMYSQL extends mysqli {
...
function __construct(
parent::__construct($args....);
echo parent::errno;
echo parent::error;
}
...
}



Expected result:
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0
''

or some error and error message when error occurs

Actual result:
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Fatal error: Undefined class constant 'errno'
Fatal error: Undefined class constant 'error'