Re: Conference Materials Site

"Rasmus Lerdorf" <rasmus@linuxcare.com> wrote... > Guys, in an effort to pool our resources and provide a single repository > for conference materials, I have created http://conf.php.net That's a good idea. It is reminiscent of Philip Greenspun's WimpyPoint (cf. PowerPoint) at http://www.wimpypoint.com/ . In fact, I see there are already several public presentations on PHP there http://www.wimpypoint.com/public/search.adp?query_string=PHP . > The idea is that when/if you give a talk on PHP, you will be able to refer > people to http://conf.php.net/borland (for example, since I > just gave a > talk at the Borland conference). I went through the Borland slides, which looked good. I have a couple of questions. Firstly, on slide 15 "OOP", I did not understand the "Inheriting a Constructor" example. I didn't think parent constructors were automatically called, and the example did not seem to be calling it manually. Should the title have been "Inheritance and Constructors"? Secondly, on slide 29 "Database Abstraction" the example has " use 'DB'; ". What is "use"? I cannot find any mention of it in the online manual (I searched, and I looked hard, especially in Ch. 11 where require and include live) or the quick function reference (I searched, and I looked at the list of all functions at http://php.net/quickref.php) or the function table at http://www.zugeschaut-und-mitgebaut.de/php/. Where can I find info about "use", and what is this 'DB' database abstraction class it is referring to? Where can I find info on that? Thanks.