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Its not always obvious which method gets called when overloading methods with different access controls and calling them from the parent class. Consider:

<?php
class C1 {
  public function __construct() {
    $this->go();
  }

  private function go() {
    echo "In the C1::go()\n";
  }
}

class C2 extends C1 {
  public function __construct() {
    parent::__construct();
  }

  protected function go() {
    echo "In the C2::go()\n";
  }
}
$c=new C2();

The output is "In the C1::go()"

Now consider:

class C1 {
	public function __construct() {
		$this->go();
	}

	protected function go() {
		echo "In the C1::go()\n";
	}
}

class C2 extends C1 {
	public function __construct() {
		parent::__construct();
	}

	protected function go() {
		echo "In the C2::go()\n";
	}
}
$c=new C2();

Output is "In the C2::go()"; The difference between the two is simply the access on the go() method.