Common method names part 2

There was an thread about common method names (maybe to be included in CS) in PEAR classes. Method names such as connect(), disconnect(), getXxx(), setXxx() were mentioned then. What would be a good common name for "constructor" method. I mean in the cases when this "constructor" returns instance of itself _or_ an PEAR error. You could allways set $this to PEAR_Error in the real constructor, but AFAIK this might not work in the future. Is factory() considered suitable in this situation, since it is interface for creating objects, _but_ is usually used in situations where it returns instance of some concrete (driver) class (suchs as DB_mysql or friends)? Other possibilities: init(), constructor(), ... -- Mika Tuupola http://www.appelsiini.net/~tuupola/