As others have pointed out, what you want here is composition. Inheritance is only meant to go one way: UP. Subclasses know about their superclasses, but superclasses should really have no idea if there are subclasses or how they are implemented.
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 1:27 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I need to know if I can access the methods in a child object from its > parent class and if so, how I might do that. > > I have a contentService object that is getting fairly full of > functions, many having to do with images so I was thinking of creating > a sub-class of content and call it imageService. What I have is a > getImageGallerys() function and a getImageByGallery function(), among > others. I plan to create a function that gets a single gallery from > getImageGallerys(), then uses the gallery's id to retrieve its images > from getImageByGallery() returning that query to the view. > > I guess I was thinking this function would be in the contentService > object, but I suppose it should be in the imageService sub-class I > will create. What are your guys thoughts on this, and can I access > methods in a sub-class from a class? > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CFCDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfcdev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
