Chapter 2. WRITING PHP CLASSES
Creating your own PHP classes is remarkably simple. As I explained in the previous chapter, a class is basically a collection of related variables and functions surrounded by a pair of curly braces and labeled with the class name. Of course, there is more to it than that, so this chapter explains the finer details.
By the end of this chapter, you should have a good understanding of the following:
Creating a class and instantiating objects from it
Controlling access to class properties and methods with visibility modifiers
Creating a subclass and overriding its parent's properties and methods
Preventing a class, its properties, ...
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