construct_object

[phbock]

So here is my question. Tried for DAYS to find an answer in the various tutorials, but hopeless:

I have a PHP script I want to understand, in which you find call:

$soft->categories = construct_object('api.categories');

where soft is a file named
class.soft.inc.php which then contains a class and a function, both named soft

where categories is a file named
class.categories.inc.php which then contains a class but not a function named categories

Both files stand in a directory called api

Now my question:
This construct_object thing I've now been really looking for for a while (both as a predefined function in php or in ANY of the files of my script). Ain't there.
But I found a function in class.categories.inc.php which is called construct_categories. Might that have something to do with it?

Thx a lot
cheers
Phillip

[bpat1434]

You'd be right... what does the function in "class.categories.inc.php" look like? If that's the only function definintion you can find, it's probably the one you're looking for.

~Brett

[phbock]

bpat1434,

It's huge. I will look into it. What I needed to know was whether a call to
construct_object

might actually call
construct_categories

if executed in
class categories

And if I understand you correctly that is indeed the case, so it's worth my time investigated that function.

thx a lot for your help
Phillip