Re: Calling parent's constructor

Alan van den Bosch wrote: > Just a thought - If the desired functionality _only_ applies to the parent > class constructor why not just __parent(). On the other hand, this could be > further extended to call any parent class function with > __parent::some_func() and a call to the parent constructor looking like > __parent::__parent(). We already have parent::some_func(). It is just that the name of the constructor in the parent class is not a constant like __init(), but dependent on the actual name of the parent class. So you cannot call parent::__init(), but you have to use a pseudo-name parent::__parent(), where PHP resolves the __parent() part to the actual constructor name. Or you'd change constructors to have a constant name, like, say, __init(), and keep some compatibility logic to emulate the old behaviour. Kristian -- Kristian Köhntopp, NetUSE AG Siemenswall, D-24107 Kiel Tel: +49 431 386 436 00, Fax: +49 431 386 435 99 Using PHP3? See our web development library at http://phplib.netuse.de/