Why am I getting Fatal error when calling a parent's constructor?

Question

I am extending one of the SPL (Standard PHP Library) classes and I am unable to call the parent\'s constructor. Here is the error I am getting:

Fatal erro

Answer 1

I got the same error. I have solved it by defining an empty constructor in the parent class. That way other classes don't have to define it. I think it's cleaner approach.

If you still need to call the constructor you can do this.

if (is_callable('parent::__construct')) {
    parent::__construct();
}