Constructor question

[spydermonkey]

i wanted to know if there is any type of benefit of using __constructor vs ClassName() for the constructor.  I have seen it done both ways and wanted to know if there is perhaps any performance benefit?

 

thanks.

[rhodesa]

__constructor = PHP5+

ClassName = PHP4

 

Stick with __constructor unless you HAVE to use PHP4

[deadimp]

It would be better to use the __construct keyword because PHP does not warn you when the class's top-level constructor is explicitly called.

I ran into this problem a while back while using the class name, which caused me to switch to using the keyword. I had a parent class which defined an update() method, and had several classes inherit from it. One of my classes ended up being named Update, and I had defined the constructor as Update(). I realized my problem (after a long time) after trying to update the object via the parent's update() and seeing that all it did was reinitialize the variables.