Re: [PHP] OOP: __construct() and "extend"

2009-12-22 Thread Allen McCabe
Extended classes may have their own constructors which are implicitly called, and as Jonathan mentioned, the constructor of any ancestors (ie. the parent) must explicitly be called. If the child (extended) class does NOT have it's own constructor method defined, the parent's constructor is called.

Re: [PHP] OOP: __construct() and "extend"

2009-12-22 Thread Jonathan Tapicer
Hey, Constructors behave the same way as regular methods with inheritance, you have to manually call the parent constructor, ie: parent::__construct(). Regards, Jonathan On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 7:45 PM, APseudoUtopia wrote: > Hey list, > > I'm writing my own class which extends upon the Memcac

[PHP] OOP: __construct() and "extend"

2009-12-22 Thread APseudoUtopia
Hey list, I'm writing my own class which extends upon the Memcached class (php.net/memcached). I'm a bit confused as to how the constructor works when extending a class. class caching extends Memcached { function __construct() { echo "Caching Class Construct!"; } } For something like the above