Comments on: Note to self: PHP object constructors never return false

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 12 May 2011 14:02:03 +0000

Well, I thought that would work better posting code like that, but the general idea was if a validation test fails, throw a new exception inside the constructor and then surround the object instantiation inside of a try/catch block.

Hope this helps.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 12 May 2011 13:59:37 +0000

Even though this is old, I stumbled across it so other people might as well.

Below is a workaround for not being able to return false but yet still ensure valid object creation.

name = $name;
}

function getName() { return $this->name; }
function __toString(){ return $this->name; }
}
?>

Instantiation:

getMessage());
}

foreach($tests as $k => $v) {
echo($v . “”);
}
?>

By: S

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 09:33:00 +0000

Thank you for this post, I better learn some true error handling then.. damn

By: schmoove

schmoove — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:52:08 +0000

Andre’s hack will not work with PHP5:

“Fatal error: Cannot re-assign $this”

By: John

John — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:42:10 +0000

Check out Andre’s hack at the bottom of the page:

http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=9253&edit=1