Re: _Construct question

They're basically the same thing, however, you can only use __construct in PHP5. -- itoctopus - http://www.itoctopus.com "John Comerford" <johnc@optionsystems.com.au> wrote in message news:46007391.6040509@styleman.com.au... > 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; > } > } > > I have fished around a bit and cannot find why one might be better than > the other. The only thing I can think is that maybe you need to use > _construct to be able to use "extends" ? > > Is this the case ? What is the advantage/disadvantage of using > _construct as opposed to using a function with the classname ? > > Thanks, > JC