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PHP Object-Oriented PHP Basics (Retired) Inheritance, Interfaces, and Exceptions Object Inheritance

Posted by Petrov von Petrov
Petrov von Petrov
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Is there really a need for the second constructor?

Hi

Hampton said that "there's no way of setting the flavor without completely reimplementing our constructor in the Soda class". But couldn't it be done by just setting a value for the $flavor property in Soda, like this:

public $flavor = "Grape";

If we just do this, when we do

echo $soda->getInfo();

we'll get

"Product Name: Space Juice Soda Flavor: Grape"

just like Hampton does with the extended constructor in the Soda class.

Of course this way the Grape value would be hard-wired to the $flavor property, and you couldn't change the flavors when creating new Soda objects (I'm aware of that).

I'm just saying that, for the purposes here (just getting the getInfo() function working with the new information in the Soda class), you could very well dispense with the extra constructor.

Right?