"Raditha Dissanayake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > hi, > > It's generaly considered that constructors are supposed return an > instance of that class. Use a factory instead if you want to return nulls;
A Factory? OK, I'll look that up, do some readng and try that route. So, if I understand you, using this 'factory' I can either return a new class instance (if it passes all the tests) or a NULL value (no instance) if it fails? Thanks for the pointer. Walter -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php