Re: [PHP] Inherited and unimplemented method of a class

On 29 Apr 2008, at 15:19, Aspra Flavius Adrian wrote:

> Hello folks.
>
> An inherited and unimplemented method of a class in PHP-5.2.5 gets  
> called twice:
>
> class Foo {
> 	public function foo() {
> 		echo get_class($this);//or __CLASS__;
> 	}
> }
> class Bar extends Foo {
> }
> $f = new Bar;
> $f->foo();
>
> Shouldn't it be only once? If I'm doing something wrong, how would I
> do it right? If it's a bug, did it get fixed as of 5.2.6RC5 ?

PHP supports two types of constructor. One is __construct(), the other  
is a function with the same name as the class.

In your example new Bar; will call foo as the constructor for the Foo  
class, and then you call foo again explicitly.

-Stut

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