Posted by Toby A Inkster on 07/23/07 08:36

Sanders Kaufman wrote:

> So extended (child?) classes MUST NOT (for OOP reasons) automatically
> call a constructor. Rather, it should be called manually, if and when
> it's desired.

s/MUST NOT/DO NOT/

Of course, if you don't define a __construct() method in the child
class, the parent class' constructor will get called automatically.

Basically, in PHP __construct() behaves the same way other methods
do: if you define the method in a child class, the parent class'
method will be ignored, unless you explicitly call it from within
the child class' method (using "parent::method()").

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