Re: PHP - Does it ignore return val from constructors?
From: Chung Leong (chernyshevsky_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/26/05
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Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 00:12:14 -0500
"thecrow" <carltonbrown@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Thank you for the explanation.
>
> That leaves me with the problem, if I fail the constructor by setting
> $this to false, how do I get the error information without echoing it?
>
> I guess I can go search on that, but if anyone has any commonly used
> ideas I would appreciate it.
>
That was just a stupid PHP 4 trick. Don't use it. It doesn't work in PHP 5.
Constructors are meant for initializing an object. They are not supposed to
fail. The only reasonable way to handle a failure in a constructor is
through exception handling, which doesn't exist in PHP 4. As others have
suggested, put the code that could potentially fail in a separate function.
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