Re: Something I don't understand about PHP classes

On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 18:35 +0200, Cesco wrote: > Ok, I suppose that this should be a very simple problem and probably > the answer is obvious, but I really can't understand how the classes > and the rest of the stuff works in PHP... > > Let's suppose that we have this piece of code: > > > <?php > > class Duck { > > function __construct() { > > while(1==1) { > // This is an infinite loop > } > > } > } > > echo "Hello world..."; > $DonaldDuck = new Duck(); > > ?> > > > I have put an infinite loop in the class constructor just to introduce > a problem that will halt the execution of the PHP code. > > Now, If I run this code I would expect that the PHP interpreter would > print the "Hello world..." string, and then it should call the class > constructor with the infinite loop inside of it. > > But that doesn't happen. > > Instead, the PHP interpreter enters IMMEDIATELY into an infinite loop, > as if the variables were declared immediately and then the rest of the > code is executed. > > Is it right? Because I'm having really hard times in debugging a PHP > class Presumably you're doing this on the shell (versus in a web page). You need to send the newline ("\n") character since most terminals buffer the output until a newline character is encountered. If htis is a webpage you are in for even more trouble since browser often won't output anything until they receive at least X bytes (where X depends on the browser). Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP