protected __call() question

the following code does not do what I expect, I made this test case after a new version of PHP5 was put on the system I am developing yesterday and some of my code no longer works: <? Class CallMe {

    public function setup()
    {
        $this->fakeMethod();
    }

    protected function __call($method, $params)
    {
        echo 'you called CallMe::'.$method."\n";
    }

} echo <<< ___THEEND EXPECTED RESULT: ----------------------------------------- you called CallMe::fakeMethod ACTUAL RESULT: ----------------------------------------- ___THEEND; $obj = new CallMe(); $obj->setup(); ?> running the script on 'PHP 5.0.0RC2-dev (cli) (built: Apr 4 2004 13:07:13) (DEBUG)' gives me: <snip> EXPECTED RESULT: ----------------------------------------- you called CallMe::fakeMethod ACTUAL RESULT: ----------------------------------------- PHP Fatal error: Call to protected method CallMe::__call() from context '' in /var/www/santos/test/call.protected.php on line 7 Fatal error: Call to protected method CallMe::__call() from context '' in /var/www/santos/test/call.protected.php on line 7 </snip> Have I misunderstood the way PHP5 works? Or maybe something is broken? does anyone else get an error? I don't rule out that this could be something specific to the machine I am on, unfortunately I am limited by knowledge and access in determining if this is the case. Kind Regards, Jochem.