On 26.09.2012 23:20 CE(S)T, Stuart Dallas wrote: > If you mean what C# calls a static constructor, no that does not > exist in PHP, but you can fake it. Okay, thank you for the quick info. How do other languages than C# call that? :-) My class is a debug helper class, that can write trace messages and so on. I have added a random per-request tag to distinguish concurrent requests in the trace file and thought that generating such a tag would perfectly fit in a static constructor. Now a helper function does that check and generates one on the first call of the method. -- Yves Goergen - nospam.list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - http://unclassified.de -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php