PHP 4.0 Bug #8965: Superclass constructor not invoked when subclass also contains a constructor

From: jeff@iomojo.com Operating system: RedHat 7.0 PHP version: 4.0.4pl1 PHP Bug Type: Class/Object related Bug description: Superclass constructor not invoked when subclass also contains a constructor If we have 2 classes: class A { ... // constructor function A() { // do things } ... } class B extends A { ... // constructor function B() { // do things } ... } When a B object is first created, its constructor is called but the constructor for class A is not. For things to work as expected, the constructor for class A must be called as with class C below. class C extends A { ... // constructor function C() { // do things // Manually exec the constructor for class A $this->A(); } ... } Not that it should matter, but my configure command is below: './configure' '--with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs' '--enable-track-vars' '--enable-magic-quotes' '--enable-sigchild' '--enable-calendar' '--enable-ftp' '--with-gd=shared' '--with-mysql=/usr/local' '--with-pdflib=shared' '--enable-wddx' '--enable-sysvmem' '--enable-sysvshm' '--with-xml' '--with-zlib' '--with-ttf' '--enable-sockets' -- Edit Bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=8965&edit=1