Calling Parent Constructor from Extending Class

Hi, All. So, I'm wrapping libnotify as my first extension, and would like to extend GObject for PHP's GObject class so that I can use the signal functionality of it (libnotify's NotifyNotification class does this - so I should, too). Now, before I tried implementing this, I simply had the create_object member point to my 'new'[1] function to set up the object[2]. I then went on to having my Notification class extend the GObject class by doing: zend_register_internal_class_ex(..., gobject_ce_gobject, ...) Using reflection I can see that my class properly inherits the methods of GObject. However, they segfault. This is, I believe, caused because GObject class hasn't been initialized. I stuck a printf() in the GObject 'new' method[3], and received no output. How should I go about doing this? Is there a design flaw here, because I cannot think of a way to do this? Or I may just be too tired and overlooking something. Or I may just suck. Let me know! [1] http://bitbucket.org/mahcuz/notify/src/tip/notification.c#cl-47 [2] http://bitbucket.org/mahcuz/notify/src/tip/php_notify.h#cl-30 [3] http://bitbucket.org/indeyets/gobject-for-php/src/tip/gobject_gobject_class.c#cl-97 -- Mark Skilbeck mahcuz.com | gtk.php.net | pecl.php.net/cairo | docs.php.net