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Subject: protected __call() question
From: jochem@iamjochem.com (Jochem Maas)

the following code does not do what I expect, I made this test case 
after a new version of PHP5 was put on the system I am developing 
yesterday and some of my code no longer works:

<?

Class CallMe
{
     public function setup()
     {
         $this->fakeMethod();
     }

     protected function __call($method, $params)
     {
         echo 'you called CallMe::'.$method."\n";
     }
}

echo <<< ___THEEND
EXPECTED RESULT:
-----------------------------------------
you called CallMe::fakeMethod

ACTUAL RESULT:
-----------------------------------------

___THEEND;

$obj = new CallMe();
$obj->setup();

?>

running the script on 'PHP 5.0.0RC2-dev (cli) (built: Apr  4 2004 
13:07:13) (DEBUG)' gives me:

<snip>
EXPECTED RESULT:
-----------------------------------------
you called CallMe::fakeMethod

ACTUAL RESULT:
-----------------------------------------
PHP Fatal error:  Call to protected method CallMe::__call() from context 
'' in /var/www/santos/test/call.protected.php on line 7

Fatal error: Call to protected method CallMe::__call() from context '' 
in /var/www/santos/test/call.protected.php on line 7
</snip>

Have I misunderstood the way PHP5 works?
Or maybe something is broken? does anyone else get an error?
I don't rule out that this could be something specific to the machine I 
am on, unfortunately I am limited by knowledge and access in determining 
  if this is the case.

Kind Regards,

Jochem.