How to call parent function from instance of child?

Question

I have model

BaseUser.class.php
User.class.php
UserTable.class.php

In user Class I have been override the delete function

Answer 1

Why do you need to extend delete if you need to call the parent one time?

Why not create a custom delete?

Like:

public function customDelete()
{
  parent::delete();

  // do extends delete here
}

Then you can delete an object using ->customDelete() and you also can call the delete method from the parent since you didn't override the delete() method:

$user = new User();
$user->customDelete();  // will call the overridden delete
$user->delete(); // will call the parent (since you didn't override it)

And if you really need to override the delete() function, you still can create a kind of parent delete:

public function parentDelete()
{
  return parent::delete();
}

Then:

$user = new User();
$user->delete();  // will call the overridden delete
$user->parentDelete(); // will call the method that only call the parent