Dear Internals, I am proposing an RFC[1] to remove PHP 4 constructors in PHP 7. If accepted, methods with the same name as their defining class will no longer be recognized as constructors. As noted in the RFC, there are already many situations where we do not recognize these methods as constructors, such as in namespaces and traits and when `function __construct` is also present.
Andrea Faulds has kindly written a utility that identifies when a PHP 4 constructor is defined[2]. It does not automatically change the code for liability reasons. The utility PHPMD[3] can also detect this but has a false positive when `__construct` is also defined. Cheers, Levi Morrison [1]: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/remove_php4_constructors [2]: https://github.com/TazeTSchnitzel/PHP4_Constructor_Finder [3]: http://phpmd.org/rules/naming.html#constructorwithnameasenclosingclass -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
