note 10041 modified in Classes and Objects by zak

# Editor's Note # Do not do this! # When you call an object's constructor from # within the constructor, you are creating an # infinite loop. An attempt to instantiate the # object results in another attempt to instantiate # the object, which results in another ... Has anyone else encountered a problem when you call an object's constructor from within the same constructor? I have an object with one of it's member variables acting as a pointer to another object of the same type. When I try to initialize it within the constructor, I just get what I guess is a trashed response from the server (with no clue as to what the error was, causing hours wasted away in trying to hunt it down. Here is a code example: class Object { . public Object() { . this.object = new Object(); } This causes everything to blow up. http://www.php.net/manual/classes-and-objects.php