Check from Constructor if function in child class exists?

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Published on 2010-03-31T09:32:58Z Indexed on 2010/03/31 9:43 UTC
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Hi,

is it possible to do something like this in PHP 5.2.1?

abstract class Test
{
  public function __construct()
  {
     if (function_exists('init'):
        $this->init();
  }
}

If i try this, the function on the subclass is not called?

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