#41819 [Opn->Bgs]: Old style Constructor inconsistencies

ID: 41819 Updated by: vrana@php.net Reported By: oancea at gmail dot com -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: Documentation problem Operating System: * PHP Version: 5.2.3 New Comment: Documentation is not saying that classname() is an alias of __construct(). It says that it is fallback if __construct() is not defined. Your interface declares method which is not defined in the class. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-06-27 10:11:45] oancea at gmail dot com Re-open to mark as a documentation problem. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-06-27 08:59:14] oancea at gmail dot com Well, as far as I can see, both of those functions are constructors, one (__constructor) specifies the signature of an object, and the other one implements it. According to this bug (fixed in 5.1): http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=35720 in the end is the same method. Anyway, thank you for your time, and I hope that at least the documentation will add my example as "don't do this because __construct and old style constructor are two different functions for interfaces or abstract classes"! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-06-27 08:50:16] tony2001@php.net Nobody said it cannot be used, but __construct() and XMLConfigurator() are two different functions, so the result you get is pretty much expected. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-06-27 08:48:25] oancea at gmail dot com How about this one: abstract class IConfigurator { public abstract function __construct(); } class XmlConfigurator extends IConfigurator { public function XmlConfigurator() { printf("%s\n", __METHOD__); } } $config = new XmlConfigurator(); Can you point me to the exact documentation where it states that the old style constructor should not be used, at least not in interfaces or in abstract classes? Thank-you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-06-27 08:28:54] tony2001@php.net Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/41819 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=41819&edit=1