tell me about... constructors

• a) A constructor is a method (a method is a function.)

• b) A constructor is called by php automatically when new objects are created.
  
  
• c) This means that you can call the function by putting data in the parameters directly after the class (see diagram 2)

• d) __construct is used to denote a php constructor (see diagram 1)
  
  

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diagram 1

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diagram 2

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• e) Only create a constructor() method when you need to make specific initial settings inside the object.
  
  
• f) Php creates a default constructor if you don't specify one. This constructor will work fine unless you want to change the default settings in new objects.