Problem With Constructor Function

Hello,

I have a nice, simple mySQL abstraction layer I have worked out in PHP.
Recently I realized on a project that I wanted one of my objects to
automatically clean-up its table on creation. I had been instantiating a
News object in a page and then calling $newsObj->cleanUp();

So I changed the name of cleanUp() to News(). Seems simple enough right?
Now it should clean up on instantiation...

class News extends DBI {
var $table = 'news';

function cleanUp() {
$data = array(
"endDate != '0000-00-00'",
"endDate < NOW()"
);
$this->delete($data);
}
}

However, the constructor function did not have access to the $dbh inherited
from the parent and threw the appropriate errors:

Warning: mysql_query(): Access denied for user: 'talking@localhost' (Using
password: NO) in /yata/yata/yata/classDBI.php on line 211

So my question to you, without much code to go on, is whether anyone knows
why this would be? When I dumped $this it held what I would expect and was
the Object type it should be.

Thanks for any advice!!

jg

Following on from jerrygarciuh's message. . .
>However, the constructor function did not have access to the $dbh inherited
>from the parent and threw the appropriate errors:
>
Somewhere in the manual it says you need to explicitly call parent
constructors. eg parent::ClassFoo() as 1st line in your constructor
function.

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Thanks Peter!!

jg


"Peter Fox" <peterfox@eminent.demon.co.uk.not.this.bit.no.html > wrote in
message news:ox$qpJAbNFGCFw1w@eminent.demon.co.uk...
> Following on from jerrygarciuh's message. . .
>>However, the constructor function did not have access to the $dbh
>>inherited
>>from the parent and threw the appropriate errors:
>>
> Somewhere in the manual it says you need to explicitly call parent
> constructors. eg parent::ClassFoo() as 1st line in your constructor
> function.
>
> --
> PETER FOX Not the same since the deckchair business folded
> peterfox@eminent.demon.co.uk.not.this.bit.no.html
> 2 Tees Close, Witham, Essex.
> Gravity beer in Essex <http://www.eminent.demon.co.uk>