From 5098c06cdda162bcb91e38eee37b1235aa9be74e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christoph Michael Becker <cmb@php.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 13:41:19 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] if __construct() and old-style constructor are present, PHP
 chooses whichever comes first (fixes #66926)

git-svn-id: https://svn.php.net/repository/phpdoc/en/trunk@337534 c90b9560-bf6c-de11-be94-00142212c4b1
---
 language/oop5/decon.xml | 12 +++++++-----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/language/oop5/decon.xml b/language/oop5/decon.xml
index b8ad55ffa7..3cbb255287 100644
--- a/language/oop5/decon.xml
+++ b/language/oop5/decon.xml
@@ -62,13 +62,15 @@ $obj = new OtherSubClass();
     </programlisting>
    </example>
    <para>
-    For backwards compatibility, if PHP 5 cannot find a 
-    <link linkend="object.construct">__construct()</link> function for a given class, and the
-    class did not inherit one from a parent class, it will
-    search for the old-style constructor function, by the name of the class.
+    For backwards compatibility, if a
+    class did not inherit a <link linkend="object.construct">__construct()</link> from a parent class,
+    either __construct() or the 
+    old-style constructor function with the name of the class will be used as constructor function,
+    whichever comes first.
     Effectively, it means that the only case that would have compatibility
     issues is if the class had a method named 
-    <link linkend="object.construct">__construct()</link> which was used for different semantics.
+    <link linkend="object.construct">__construct()</link> which was used for different semantics,
+    and which came lexically before the old-style constructor.
    </para>
    <para>
     Unlike with other methods, PHP will not generate an