Re: [PHP-DEV] Calling parent's constructor From: Kristian Köhntopp (kk <email protected>)
Date: 12/14/00

Alan van den Bosch wrote:
> Just a thought - If the desired functionality _only_ applies to the parent
> class constructor why not just __parent(). On the other hand, this could be
> further extended to call any parent class function with
> __parent::some_func() and a call to the parent constructor looking like
> __parent::__parent().

We already have parent::some_func(). It is just that the
name of the constructor in the parent class is not a constant
like __init(), but dependent on the actual name of the
parent class. So you cannot call parent::__init(), but you
have to use a pseudo-name parent::__parent(), where PHP
resolves the __parent() part to the actual constructor
name.

Or you'd change constructors to have a constant name,
like, say, __init(), and keep some compatibility logic
to emulate the old behaviour.

Kristian 

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