Re: Method chaining off constructors

The 'new' keyword has to apply to the object created in the constructor (and not the return value of any of the follow-up calls.) To establish this precedence, chaining wasn't allowed on constructors. On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Eric Butera <eric.butera@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Christoph Boget <jcboget@yahoo.com> > wrote: > >> > Why? I thought constructors returned the object? > >> It's been a while since I've played with objects in PHP, but couldn't > >> you just add the line: > >> return $this; > >> ...to the end of your __construct() function? Sorry if this is obtuse of > >> me to say, I just thought maybe the answer was that simple and you're > >> like I am--you've been staring at a tree for so long, racking your > >> brain, that you forget about the forest altogether. :) > > > > The constructor should already be returning $this. > > > > thnx, > > Christoph > > > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > If you want to do this you need to define a function/method that > returns an instance for you. So you can say > > class bob { > > public static function getInstance() { > return new bob(); > } > > public function foo() { > } > > } > > bob::getInstance()->foo(); > > I've seen on the internals list where core dev's said it doesn't make > sense to chain off a constructor. If you want this behavior then you > need to do it off a method. This is just how things work is all it > boils down to. > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >