note 86648 deleted from language.oop5.static by bjori

Note Submitter: Marceaux Reason: bad code ---- @zerocool: __construct() cannot be private or protected, it needs to be public (at least in PHP 5.2.6). You can make it private/protected in the class definition, but the moment you actually try to instantiate an object you'll get a fatal error: PHP Fatal error: Call to protected/private Foo::__construct() from invalid context Same goes for __destruct() (will get you a warning), __clone() (fatal error) and other magic functions. As a side effect, this means __construct() & the rest can be accessed freely and directly from outside the object. Sad but true.