On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 20:00:17 -0400, George Schlossnagle <george at omniti.com> wrote: > 4) you can use the delegation pattern and delegate that method to the > class that implements it. Ah, so: class charlie { function kickBall() { $f = new football(); return $f->kickBall( $this ); } } That's a better option, I agree.