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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Class constructor behaviour
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

Tony Marston wrote on 19/01/2015 09:54:
>>>
>>> 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.

Ah, I see, yes. I don't think that's what was meant by "procedural code" 
in this case, though. We were talking about extensions which either 
represent all their functionality procedurally (as with file I/O, for 
instance), or which include a procedural wrapper for those not 
comfortable with OO (such as mysqli). The point being that these 
functions are implemented in a different style, including their 
error-handling conventions.

Regards,
-- 
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]