Why is $host in the Plugin class set to private? Then I cannot use it in my plugin class at all.
fox
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you know maybe you should consider posting less and reading more
start with sample plugins and maybe keep dumb questions here to a minimum in the future
Ok, I saw Plugin’s own init() method and thought that I should call that from my plugin class via parent::init($host). It sets the $host only readable for itself.
But as I saw you explain this is not desired here.
fox
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as far as i remember derivative plugins have their own variable because its not set in the constructor anyway so why even share it, idk
it could be set protected i guess and plugins could call parent init() in their own
But as I saw you explain this is not desired here.
i don’t mean stop posting altogether just maybe don’t do it over every little thing you could easily look up
No, I meant that the practise that I see as standard (call parent method of the same name if that implements functionality I need) seems not to be used here.
And keeping the plugin host in the plugin itself is something nearly every plugin does, which I thought is why the plugin base classes’ init() implements that. But that was contradicted by the private visibility of the plugin base classes’ $host variable.
Given that Plugin::$host is not used at all by the plugin base class itself, I thought it was meant to be used by child classes.
So what I think should be done: Either remove that Plugin::init() method and only define an abstract one with that name, or make the $dbh and $host variables in Plugin protected, so that child classes can use them.
