PHP Nested classes work... sort of?

Posted by SeanJA on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by SeanJA
Published on 2010-04-09T14:53:30Z Indexed on 2010/04/09 15:03 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 296

Filed under:
|
|
|

So, if you try to do a nested class like this:

//nestedtest.php

class nestedTest{
    function test(){
         class E extends Exception{}
         throw new E;
    }
}

You will get an error Fatal error: Class declarations may not be nested in [...]

but if you have a class in a separate file like so:

//nestedtest2.php

class nestedTest2{
    function test(){
         include('e.php');
         throw new E;
    }
}

//e.php
class E Extends Exception{}

So, why does the second hacky way of doing it work, but the non-hacky way of doing it does not work?

© Stack Overflow or respective owner

Related posts about php

Related posts about nested-class