__call() magic method

Hi all, I'm emailling to ask why __call isn't called when you call a private method from outside of function... In my opinion, this error should exist, but when you haven't an __call function, because outside the scope of class it only should see public methods, then if it don't exist it should call the __call Fatal error: Call to private method user::print_user() from context '' in /home/diogo/Documents/devspace/mangas.dev/index.php on line 47 Of course my opinion only counts what it counts, not too much I believe :) Anyway, it's the correct beaviour or its bugie? Make my opinion some sense? Is there anyway of implement or own magic method that gets called before any method in a given class? -- Thanks by your attention, Diogo Neves Web Developer @ SAPO.pt by PrimeIT.pt