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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Class constructor behaviour
From: TonyMarston@hotmail.com ("Tony Marston")

"Rowan Collins"  wrote in message 
news:CALKiJKqpk7X0yn0d_PWOKU1S7m156dF7865aLCP5dLF=q39uWg@mail.gmail.com...
>
>On 18 January 2015 at 11:28, Tony Marston <TonyMarston@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> "Andrea Faulds"  wrote in message news:23490588-0131-4B0F-A7AA-
>> C9C8C766626C@ajf.me...
>>

<<snip>>

>>
>> You are forgetting one minor thing - an object may be instantiated from a
>> piece of procedural code. In fact the very first object can only be
>> instantiated from procedural code.
>
>
>I'm not sure what you mean by the second sentence here; which is the "very
>first object"?

Before you can use an object you must instantiate it using "$object = new 
<classname>". For the very first object this line can only be performed in 
procedural code. It cannot be perform within the first object as the first 
object must be instantiated externally.

-- 
Tony Marston