Best to use Private methods or Protected methods?

Question

In a lot of my PHP projects, I end up with classes that have non-public functions that I don\'t intend to extend.

Is it best to declare these as protected, or privat

Answer 1

I generally avoid private. My reasoning goes that if you have an inheritance relation between two classes, and there are private members, then it is a very strong indicative that you should factor the private parts out into a separate object.