[Tenderfoot]

CTphpnwb, on 04 October 2012 - 11:10 AM, said:

No, your child class inherits all of the abstract class variables.

I think your teacher wants to demonstrate that the child class will overload the abstract class definition of the function.

Maybe so, but I still think the instructions could have been clearer. I should be having trouble implementing it, not interpreting it. But thank you though, that might be an explanation for that part. What do you think I should do about the set/get functions though? I have them in the abstract class, which means, the child class should inherit them. I can use $this->setFornafn in the child class for an example, but when I call $this->fornafn the variable contains nothing. So that would indicate I was wrong about that part.

But thank you guys for your patience - I tend to over-analyze everything and that can be problematic.

[CTphpnwb]

It's better to show us what you're doing than describe it. That way we can tell you exactly why a variable has the wrong or no value.

-- Although describing the problem is always a good idea too!

[Tenderfoot]

CTphpnwb, on 04 October 2012 - 11:30 AM, said:

It's better to show us what you're doing than describe it. That way we can tell you exactly why a variable has the wrong or no value.

-- Although describing the problem is always a good idea too!

Hold on, it works! I feel like the light bulb in my head finally turned on when I saw that.

It must have been misspelled or something like that before, this is the code I used:

	function __construct($fornafn, $eftirnafn, $laun)
	{
		//$this->fornafn = $fornafn; 
		//$this->eftirnafn = $eftirnafn;
		$this->setFornafn($fornafn);
		$this->setEftirnafn($eftirnafn);
		$this->setLaun($laun);
	}

	function __toString()
	{
		return "Nafn: $this->fornafn $this->eftirnafn - laun eru $this->laun"; 
	}

The above code is in the child class. All of the set functions I defined in the abstract class. This makes sense, finally. It didn't work earlier for some reason, I don't know what it was. But I really appreciate all of your effort to help me understand. Now the remaining issue is that I don't know what to do with the income function, but it isn't described at all so I'll take that up with my teacher. Thanks again!

[Dormilich]

it didn’t work because they were private properties. when you called the properties in the child class, PHP on-the-fly created another set of properties (public, in the current class) as the properties of the abstract class were invisible. and since the properties were separated, setting $this->fornafn cannot affect the output of $this->getFornafn().