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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:07:13 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] constructor hook
From: johannes@schlueters.de (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=)

On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 08:19 -0400, Rasmus Schultz wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I'm going to make this brief, because I suspect a lot of people are going
> to jump at the opportunity to cry bloody murder when I suggest this.
> 
> I wonder if it would make sense to have a way to globally hook into
> __construct() - sort of like how you can hook into the autoloaders with
> spl_autoload_register() ...
> 
> This could be useful for things like dependency injection and debugging.

I don't think it's a good thing to have. "new" right now gives you a 
clear idea whats going on. Magic behind the scenes is hard to debug.

If you really want it: https://github.com/johannes/php-test-helpers

johannes