Re: Confused with constructors

Gerald Wharney wrote:

I'm trying the example at: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop.constructor.php <?php class A { function A() {

       echo "I am the constructor of A.<br />\n";

} function B() {

       echo "I am a regular function named B in class

A.<br />\n";

       echo "I am not a constructor in A.<br />\n";

} } class B extends A { function C() {

       echo "I am a regular function.<br />\n";

} } // This will call B() as a constructor. $b = new B; ?> Running this on 4.3.9 both as an apache module and from CLI I get: I am a regular function named B in class A. I am not a constructor in A. This is contrary to what the manual says: "This is fixed in PHP 4 by modifying the rule to: 'A constructor is a function of the same name as the class it is being defined in.'. Thus in PHP 4, the class B would have no constructor function of its own and the constructor of the base class would have been called, printing 'I am the constructor of A.<br />'." Is this an error in the manual? Or a bug in php 4.3.9? Or just me being stupid?

as i understand it exactly as you, it must be a bug/error -- Sebastian Mendel www.sebastianmendel.de www.warzonez.de www.tekkno4u.de www.nofetish.com www.sf.net/projects/phpdatetime www.sf.net/projects/phptimesheet