Re: protected/private function __construct() not allowed in 5.0.4?

From:	Greg Beaver	Date:	Wed, 20 Apr 2005 13:52:25 +0000
Subject:	Re: protected/private function __construct() not allowed in 5.0.4?
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Antony Dovgal wrote:

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 23:11:46 -0400 Greg Beaver <cellog@php.net> wrote:
Hi all, I just spent quite a while searching the archives, and can't find any explanation of why this code worked in 5.0.3 but doesn't in 5.0.4: <?php class blah {
 protected function __construct(){}
} ?>
Works fine with HEAD, 5.0.5-dev & 5.0.4. Could you plz explain what did you mean when you said "doesn't work" ?

I didn't read the error message closely enough - when extending the base class, which has a public constructor, the protected keyword is no longer allowed. Fatal error: Access level to Chiara_PEAR_Server_Frontend_Xmlrpc5_Package ::__construct() must be public (as in class Chiara_XML_RPC5_Server) in c:\php 5\pear\Chiara\PEAR\Server\Frontend\Xmlrpc5.php on line 40 Try this code (which worked in 5.0.3) <?php class a { public function __construct(){}} class b extends a { protected function __construct(){}} ?> Greg