Overriding Doctrine Trait Properties

Question

I know you can override a trait method by declaring it in your class, I was curious if was possible to over ride a trait Property the same way. Is this safe to do? Its not in the Documentation so I am hesitant to implement this.

From the Documentation

An inherited member from a base class is overridden by a member inserted by a Trait. The precedence order is that members from the current class override Trait methods, which in turn override inherited methods.

http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.traits.php

Answer 1

You cannot override a trait's property in the class where the trait is used. However, you can override a trait's property in a class that extends the class where the trait is used. For example:

trait ExampleTrait {     protected $someProperty = 'foo'; }  abstract class ParentClass {     use ExampleTrait; }  class ChildClass extends ParentClass {     protected $someProperty = 'bar'; } 

Answer 2

My solution was to use the constructor, example:

trait ExampleTrait {     protected $someProperty = 'foo'; }  class MyClass {     use ExampleTrait;      public function __construct()     {          $this->someProperty = 'OtherValue';     } }