note 51367 added to language.oop5

There are 3 simple, and utterly annoying problems with your classes (not because of how you want them to work, but because how the Zend II engine handles them): 1) You cannot type hint string or int/integer in a method signature. This is incredibly annoying that the Zend II engine doesn't support it, but there are workarounds. 2) Supplying null in a method signature for a default value means that you will not accept any null value for that parameter. (therefore the method doesn't need to check if the parameters are null anyway). 3) Sadly, overriding methods is only possible with the Zend II engine via Inheritance or Polymorphism, ( and __construct() can only be defined within a class). If you want to override a method in the same class, my suggestion is to provide the method signature with a $flag = null variable, which you call a SWITCH on to pick what the data should do. ============================================== Other than the afformentioned, the Zend II engine works very similarly to Java, which has made PHP much more versatile and robust in version 5. Thank you again Zend! ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+51367 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51367&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51367&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51367&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51367&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51367&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+51367&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php