Bug #77470 [Wfx]: Methods in traits can unwillingly function as constructor

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=77470&edit=1 ID: 77470 User updated by: bas at dmt-software dot nl Reported by: bas at dmt-software dot nl Summary: Methods in traits can unwillingly function as constructor Status: Wont fix Type: Bug Package: Class/Object related PHP Version: Irrelevant Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: I agree. Thanks for looking into this. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2019-01-30 08:31:27] nikic@php.net Marking this as won't fix per the above comment. Legacy dtor support is gone from PHP 8 and the code behaves as desired there. I don't think it's worthwhile to make a (BC-breaking) change in 7.4 in addition to that. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2019-01-25 10:36:43] nikic@php.net While trying to fix this I found bug #55554, which is where the current behavior was implemented. It also has this example, which makes slightly more sense in that the legacy ctor name is used as an explicit alias: trait TConstructor { public function constructor() { echo "ctor executed\n"; } } class NewConstructor { use TConstructor { constructor as __construct; } } class LegacyConstructor { use TConstructor { constructor as LegacyConstructor; } } Given this, I'm not sure whether to make this change. It would only be able to go into 7.4 if at all, and in PHP 8 legacy constructors are going away entirely, so the problem will resolve itself at that time. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2019-01-16 15:52:21] nikic@php.net I agree that we should only treat __construct as a constructor when coming from a trait. Interesting that this only comes up now, probably not many people using traits with non-namespaced code. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2019-01-16 15:44:01] bas at dmt-software dot nl Description: ------------ A class without __construct method cannot use a trait that has a method that equals the class it's name. It will execute the trait method as constructor when E_DEPRECATED errors are ignored. This should never happen. Test script: --------------- error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_DEPRECATED); class Callback { use CallbackTrait; } trait CallbackTrait { public function callback() { echo 'this is called'; } } new Callback(); --- https://3v4l.org/CWBai Expected result: ---------------- It should ignore the method as constructor like extends does or it should trigger a fatal error as it does when a constructor is present (https://3v4l.org/nbh6X) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=77470&edit=1