Mastering WooCommerce 4

Creating the Integration child class

The way we're creating our settings page is by taking advantage of a concept in programming called inheritance. Inheritance means we're using a child class that inherits programming from the parent class. Basically, WooCommerce wrote the parent Integration class and we're going to write a child class that will automatically have certain things defined, which will save us dozens of hours of coding.

There are two important pieces of the Integration child class. The first part is the constructor and the second is where we define our settings. Let's look at the constructor first.