Passing Down Code Wisdom through Generations Who would have guessed that PHP supports inheritance? Everyone using PHP since Object Oriented Programming became a thing, that’s who. If you’re not familiar with inheritance in programming, it’s just mimicking real world concepts, primarily ancestral inheritance. You inherit traits or characteristics from your parents, your parents from their parents and so on. You and I share the same traits as all human beings, so our parent class can be Human. In that Human class we can list methods like walking and speaking. Even though we speak different languages, the mechanism is the same.