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Inheritance

Reuse code and extend functionality with inheritance.

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Inheritance in PHP

Welcome to the next lesson! In this lesson, you’ll learn about inheritance, a core concept in Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) that allows you to extend the functionality of a class. Let’s get started!

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What Is Inheritance?

Inheritance is a mechanism in OOP that allows one class (child class) to inherit properties and methods from another class (parent class). This promotes code reuse and hierarchy in programming.

Example: A Car class can serve as a parent for Sedan and SUV classes.

All lessons in this course

  1. Introduction to OOP in PHP
  2. Defining Classes and Objects
  3. Inheritance
  4. Encapsulation and Access Modifiers
  5. Polymorphism
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