Can I use private instance methods as callbacks?

Question

My particular scenario involves doing some text transformation using regular expressions within a private method. The private method calls preg_replace_callback, but is seem

Answer 1

Can you not use protected? I'd need to know what the relationship of these two classes were in relation to each other to be more clear, but you should be able to extend the class and use the new protected methods you have inherited without making them public.

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