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Alex Hort-Francis
12,924 PointsConfusion: setting the `$description` property on `ListingPremium` to `protected`, at 1:30
I think the way this is explained is a bit confusing. Alena talks about how properties with a protected access visibility on a child class are available to the parent class if there is a method that uses a property of the same name in the parent class, and the parent class declares that property, as protected.
This makes sense in terms of scoping, but confused me because it sounded like the inheritance was going 'back up the chain', which is not how object-oriented programming works.
Only child classes can inherit from parent classes, not the other way around.
A better way to explain this may be to just delete the $description property from the ListingPremium child class, as it doesn't need to be declared in both the parent and child classes.
Have I got this right?