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Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 17:39:02 -0800
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Thread-Topic: [PHP-DEV] Will pay for feature add
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To: "Sam Barrow" <sam@sambarrow.com>,
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Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] Will pay for feature add
From: andi@zend.com ("Andi Gutmans")

Hi Sam,

When we designed PHP 5 we intentionally went down the Java-like route of
multiple interfaces and single inheritance. This was a major design
decision and not something we want to change. From the languages which
do support it like C++ you can see how many problems it creates and the
workarounds the language needs to support, hence why Java went down a
different route.

The features you should be looking at are interfaces, single
inheritance, and __call(). If there are special needs you have which
require some additional functionality you may want to look at building
some proxy class in C as a PHP extension but I have yet to see many
situations where that's really needed.

Andi

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sam Barrow [mailto:sam@sambarrow.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2007 12:23 PM
> To: PHP Developers Mailing List
> Subject: [PHP-DEV] Will pay for feature add
>=20
> If anyone here is experienced enough to help me, I will pay for a
patch
> to allow for multiple class inheritance (class D extends A, B, C)
> against PHP 5.3 CVS. Or if you can just help me get started on writing
> it, I'm sure I could finish myself. I'm just stuck at the basic zend
> class declaration functions.
>=20
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