Why you should care
Developers should avoid using deprecated constructors. Since PHP5, constructor should be named __construct.
How we detect
CAST Highlight counts one occurrence each time:
- a method has the name of the class
- the constructor calls the parent constructor having the same name of the parent class
References
About CAST and Highlight’s Code Insights
Over the last 25 years, CAST has leveraged unique knowledge on software quality measurement by analyzing thousands of applications and billions of lines of code. Based on this experience and community standards on programming best practices, Highlight implements hundreds of code insights across 15+ technologies to calculate health factors of a software.