Help, need a little help!!!

Well I've started to play about with PHP and I'm quiet ashamed to say that I'm already stuck

I don't seem to be able to call a function from a constructor for some reason.

I want to do something like this:

php:

class User {     function User($fName, $lName, $email)     {         if( userExists($fName, $lName, $email) )         {             //user already exists         }         else...     }     function userExists($fName, lName, $email)     {         //check for user         return bool;     } }

and from another page I do the following

$user = new User('Jimbo', 'Jones', '[email protected]');

but I'm getting an error like so:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: userExists()

Why cant i call a function from a constructor?

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Hey, i figured it out. No need to reply to this post. Thanks

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I think you would also post the solution that you tried over here. So that other users could get some knowledge.

Sorry about that. How rude of me

The solution is like so:

if( $this->userExists($fName, $lName, $email) )
{
//user already exists
}

Notice ' $this->' before the function name. I'm not 100% sure why It's needed. I suppose it's letting the PHP engine know that userExists(...) is a function in this class. If anybody knows for sure why this is needed could they post it here. I would like to find out more about '$this'.

Cheers

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yes, it's needed because you are referring to that instance of the class and not anywhere else...working with classess need that $this -> so they know what you are referring to...don't know if I explained it correctly but that's how I know it.

Dang...I wanted to help him...ya'll suck!

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