Re: _Construct question

On 3/21/07, Chris <dmagick@gmail.com> wrote:

John Comerford wrote: Hi Folks, I am still pretty new to PHP and I have a question regarding classes and using _construct. Up until now I have been creating my classes as follows: class test1 { var $name; function test1($pName) { $this->name = $pName; } } So I when I create a new class I can assign 'name' by doing '$t1 = new test1("test1");' As part of another thread I noticed the _construct function which (if I am correct) does more or less the same thing: class test2 { var $name; function _construct($pName) { $this->name = $pName; } } It's __construct (double underscore). PHP5 uses __construct PHP4 uses the class name. To support both: class test { // php5 calls this function __construct() { echo 'do stuff here'; } // php4 calls this function test() {

    $this->__construct();

} } :D To support both, i wouldn't even think about the PHP5 __Construct. I

would just do it like this:

class test { function test() { echo 'do stuff here'; } }

Tijnema

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