Erecting Worlds from Blueprints with Constructors If you’re used to other object oriented programming languages, you’re probably familiar with the constructor. You may also be familiar with the constructor being named as the class name; it’s just a method that shares the same name as the class name. In PHP, it’s actually simplified in my opinion. You name the constructor method, construct with two underscores before it: __construct(). Great, but what is the point of the constructor. It’s there to initialize properties inside the object upon instantiation; PHP calls the constructor method automatically when the object is instantiated. Let’s look at some code to see