How can I run a method from an object's parent class that has been overridden in PHP?

Question

This may be a duplicate post, but searching for the answer just led me to the C, Java and ColdFusion ways of doing this...

Given class A with method foo() and class B extends A and also has foo(), I want to run something like:

$b = new B();
$b->A::foo(); (this is working C syntax, but that doesn't seem to work)

Answer 1

You can't call it directly from the object, you have to call it from within A->foo(), for example:

class A 
{
    function foo() 
    {
        echo "I am A::foo() and provide basic functionality.<br />\n";
    }
}

class B extends A 
{
    function foo() 
    {
        parent::foo();
    }
}

$b = new B;
$b->foo();