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This function is a hack to support the PHP5 __construct() on PHP4.

Descendant classes have no PHP4 class_name() constructors. If the code runs in PHP4 this constructor gets called first and calls the __construct() of the inherited class which (if present) should call parent::__construct().

JObject JObject ()

This example declares the class MyObject which inherits from JObject implementing the PHP5 constructor __contruct() only.

class MyObject extends JObject 
{
    var $title;

    function __construct($title) {
        $this->title = $title;
    }
}

$obj = new MyObject('New Title');

The calling chain in PHP4 would result in:

1.) JObject::JObject()
2.) %%MyObject::__construct()%%

whereas in PHP5 the result is:

1.) %%MyObject __construct()%%

See also PHP manual:

• Classes and Objects (PHP 4): Constructors
• Classes and Objects (PHP 5): Constructors and Destructors