The version is actually the 4.3.0 zend2 alpha2.

I'm wondering if it is possible to return an instance of a subclass from a constructor.  For example:

class test1
{
  class test2
  {
    function prt_test()
    {
      echo("testing!!!");
    }
  }

  function __construct()
  {
    return new test2();
  }
}
	
$test_obj = new test1();
	
$test_obj->prt_test();

?>

Let's say that I want to parent class to choose one of it's children to actually provide the functionality based on some selection criteria.

This isn't a big issue since I can just use a function seperate from the constructor to accompolish roughly the same thing.  I'm just wondering if this is something that was considered or encountered already.

Thanks...