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Preventing Changes to Classes and Methods in PHP

InfinityCoder November 24, 2016

You want to prevent another developer from redefining specific methods within a child class, or even from subclassing the entire class itself.

Label the particular methods or class as final:

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final public function connect($server, $username, $password) {
    // Method definition here
}

and:

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final class MySQL {
    // Class definition here
}

Inheritance is normally a good thing, but it can make sense to restrict it.

The best reason to declare a method final is that a real danger could arise if someone overrides it; for example, data corruption, a race condition, or a potential crash or deadlock from forgetting (or forgetting to release) a lock or a semaphore.
Make a method final by placing the final keyword at the beginning of the method  declaration:

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final public function connect($server, $username, $password) {
    // Method definition here
}

This prevents someone from subclassing the class and creating a different connect() method.
To prevent subclassing of an entire class, don’t mark each method final. Instead, make a final class:

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final class MySQL {
    // Class definition here
}

A final class cannot be subclassed. This differs from a class in which every method is final because that class can be extended and provided with additional methods, even if you cannot alter any of the preexisting methods.

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