[RESLOVED] Class initialisation.

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Is it possible to do class initialisation (as opposed to a constructor) in PHP?

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What do you mean? Initialize a static class?

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A member function that gets called when the class is first loaded.

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The class isn't really loaded in PHP as far as I am aware. I suppose what you can do is have a function that is called imeaditaley after the class definition:

class Poo
{
    private static $var;

    public static init()
    {
        self::$var = 'poo';
    }
}

Poo::init(); 

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Yeah, that's the idea; just wondered if there was a magic function for it.

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Yeah, that's the idea; just wondered if there was a magic function for it.

I think its called __doItYourSelf()

The class is loaded when interpreter runs over it so it would seem quite logical to call an init() method immediatly after its definition. As for unloading the class - I suppose you could resister a shutdown function but you would need to check that all instances of the object have been destroyed. Not sure how you do that.

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Unloading's not important. Not yet, at least.

Thanks anyway.

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Now get a life and stop coding on new years day