note 78430 added to language.oop5.decon

Looking through the notes I noticed a few people expressing concern that PHP5 does not support multiple constructors... Here is an example of a method that I use which seems to work fine: class Example { function __construct() { echo "do some basic stuff here"; } function Example($arg) { echo $arg; } } You then can call with or without arguments without having notices and/or warnings thrown at you... Of course this is limited but if you don't need something complex this can help to get the job done in some situations. I believe you could also add arguments to the __construct() function and as long as it is different than Example() 's args you would be fine. Although I have yet to test this. ---- Server IP: 64.71.164.2 Probable Submitter: 72.12.219.139 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.decon.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/78430 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78430/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78430/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78430/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78430/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78430/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78430/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78430 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/78430 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php