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Posted by Sanders Kaufman on 07/23/07 01:48
Michael Fesser wrote:
> .oO(Sanders Kaufman)
>> So, bottom line, what you're saying here is that when you extend a base
>> class like this, you still have to manually call the base class's
>> constructor? Zat right?
>
> Correct. PHP doesn't do that automatically, except if the child class
> doesn't have a constructor. Then PHP will call the one from the base
> class, if it exists. But as soon as your child class uses its own
> constructor, you have to manually call the parent one. Usually this
> should be the first action.
Got it - and I wish I'd got it a year ago!
Is that a normal OOP way to do it - done that way in C++ and whatnot -
or is this unique to PHP?
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