Re: Declaration of Bar::__construct() must be compatible with that of Foo::__construct()

Timm Friebe wrote:

thekid@friebes:~/devel/php/tests > cat inheritance.php <?php class Foo {

    function __construct($foo) {
    }

} class Bar extends Foo {

    function __construct($foo, $bar) {        // Add = NULL after $bar to make it work
    }

} ?> thekid@friebes:~/devel/php/tests > php-dev inheritance.php Fatal error: Declaration of Bar::__construct() must be compatible with that of Foo::__construct() in /usr/home/thekid/devel/php/tests/inheritance.php on line 10 Is this really necessary? If that error still occurs if you explicitely call the parent's __construct (from the derived __construct), that's a bug IMO.

It's totally understandable to get such an error message in the case the parent constructor gets called implicitely, but for an explicit call there should neither be a warning or an error . Cheers, Michael