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12. Inheritance

Extending classes.

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A class extends another with the extends keyword, inheriting its public and protected members. The parent:: syntax calls an overridden parent method or constructor from a child class.

PHP supports single inheritance for classes; multiple behaviors are instead composed using interfaces and traits.

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