Assertion: class's constructor | /r/HasProperty | method
Facets:
value: on a class object
type: LOCATION
value: in php version
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: A constructor is a method that is called at the beginning of an object's lifetime to create and initialize the object, a process called construction (or instantiation).
text: The constructors are the two methods that have the same name as the class, and which have no return type specified.
text: In PHP version 5 and above, the constructor is a method named __construct() (notice that it's a double underscore), which the keyword new automatically calls after creating the object.
text: In languages where constructors are themselves methods on a class object ( class methods ), there is an existing object, and constructors are special cases of factory methods, with polymorphic creation being a special case of polymorphic method dispatch.
text: Constructors are methods that initialize an instance of the class.