Re: Using a Resource as a Class Property

Michael Fesser wrote:

Quite simple: A base class with a member variable and a method that
performs some action with that. Since this is done in the constructor,
every child class has to be able to initialize the data before calling
the parent constructor, as you can see in B::__construct(). If PHP would
automatically call the parent constructor, this would be impossible.

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.

And this is not unique to PHP.

Zat right?

(Scuse me if I'm being dense, but I got some head stuff going on.)
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