note 12392 deleted from language.oop by vincent

Note Submitter: DanRichter.at.programmer.dot.net ---- If you get the impression that your constructor is not being called, remember the proper syntax for member variables: $this->foo. I spent about a half hour wondering why my constructor "wasn't being called", and finally found out that the variable assignments in the constructor were in the form of $foo = $bar, and so simply created transient variables. (Another possibility: remember that a subclass does not automatically call its parent class's constructor.)