Re: [PHP-DEV] Object Constructors in PHP From: Carsten Gehling (carsten <email protected>)
Date: 04/06/01

From: "Steven Roussey" <sroussey <email protected>>
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 2:19 AM
Subject: [PHP-DEV] Object Constructors in PHP

> Don't ask why it is this way, but say we have these files:

<snip code>

Bad bad BAD programmer! Go to your corner. :-)

> It runs fine printing 'hi' (though not with APC, but fine with Zend
Cache).
>
> BUT, What _should_ happen?

You mean from a PHP perspective or from an OOP perspective?

Your example runs as expected. The contructur Outline_ForumStyle() calls the
inherited method ForumStyle(). Nothing wrong with that.

I think what would be more interesting is, what happens if you instantiate
ForumStyle?

$f = new ForumStyle();

>From an OOP POV, there is no contructor, so nothing should happen. PHP OTOH
recognises the inherited method ForumStyle() as having the same name as the
class, thereby making it a contructor.

Not good IMHO, but i think it stems from the fact that PHP does not have a
keyword for explicitly defining contructors, like you find in Java or C++.

One of the areas in PHP that still need some work is IMHO the OOP area. Some
things are a bit too loosly defined - even for a script language.

- Carsten 

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