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

I found this thread on codingforums. What it says (and I tend to agree with them) is that if you have an overridden function/method in a child class, an instance of that object will ALWAYS call the child method.

The parent keyword is akin to $this or self and can only be called from within the class itself.

If you want a child object to be able to call the parent method, just create another method

function parentExample() { 
    parent::example(); 
}

which only calls the parent method.