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ID: 40880 Comment by: ekincigokan at gmail dot com Reported by: prometheus__0 at hotmail dot com Summary: public->protected inheritance causes fatal Status: Not a bug Type: Bug Package: Class/Object related Operating System: SUSE SLES 10 PHP Version: 5CVS-2007-03-21 (snap) Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Same "problem". class A{ public function __construct(){} } class B extends A { protected function __construct(){} } Please, can you tell us a reason why we can't put an private/protected access to B's constructor if A's constructor is public ? Is there any logical reason to this ? Thanks. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-09-10 22:27:24] herman dot wetherington at gmail dot com Apparently, we don't call this a "bug" because this is not caused by a programming error. So I'm calling it a "massive design flaw" instead. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-10-15 23:33:35] robertoblanko at gmail dot com Same problem here. You cannot actually apply the singleton pattern to subclasses with this behavior. I do not see any reason for not calling this a bug. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-09-07 12:58:35] nickyla83 at yahoo dot fr I'm in the same situation as our friend "prometheus" here, I am trying to use a singleton pattern and logically, this should involve being able to encapsulate the subcalasses information particularly setting up a private constructor for the singleton subclass, IT DEFINITELY DOES MAKE SENSE, so please try to take this under consideration for the next php engine release. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-03-21 10:05:25] prometheus__0 at hotmail dot com is this the 'php'-dev definition? i'm asking cause wraping a singleton pattern around a subclass makes sense and the same example is valid for java and c++ to ask it differently: why is it working this way in php? (i'm interested in the background of this) my point is that 2 languages allow it and there is an example which is valid, not? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-03-21 09:43:47] der...@php.net Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php This is how it works... you can always open up an API through a new extended interface, but not hide more. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=40880 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=40880&edit=1