Is there a way to have PHP subclasses inherit properties (both static and instance)?

Question

If I declare a base class as follows:

abstract class Parent {

  protected static $message = \"UNTOUCHED\";

     public static function yeah() {
         st         


        

Answer 1

Inheritance and static properties does sometime lead to "strange" things in PHP.

You should have a look at Late Static Bindings in the PHP's manual : it explains what can happen when inheriting and using static properties in PHP <= 5.2 ; and gives a solutions for PHP >= 5.3 where you can use the static:: keywords instead of self::, so that static binding is done at execution (and not compile) time.

Answer 2

The answer is "with a workaround".

You have to create a static constructor and have it called to copy the property.