Re: Using a Resource as a Class Property

Michael Fesser wrote:
.oO(Sanders Kaufman)

class my_childclass extends my_baseclass {
function my_childclass() {
// first call parent constructor or we won't have a database ...
parent::my_baseclass();
// then do some other stuff
...


OK - that seems to be where I went wrong. I thought the base class's constructor was automatically called when the extended class's was.

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?
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