Deprecated: Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP

Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP;

class Automobile
{
  public function Automobile()
  {
    echo "A new automobile has been created!";
  }
}

class Fruit
{
  public function Fruit()
  {
    echo "Yum!";
  }
}

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<?php
$toyota = new Automobile(); // This echoes "A new automobile has been created!"
$watermelon = new Fruit(); // This echoes "Yum!"
?>

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class Automobile
{
  public function __construct()
  {
    echo "A new automobile has been created!";
  }
}

class Fruit
{
  public function __construct()
  {
    echo "Yum!";
  }
}

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<?php
$toyota = new Automobile(); // This echoes "A new automobile has been created!"
$watermelon = new Fruit(); // This echoes "Yum!"
?>

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1. <?php
2. add_action('widgets_init', 'g_twitter_feed_widgets');
3. function g_twitter_feed_widgets()
4. {
5.      register_widget('g_twitter_feed');
6. }
7. class g_twitter_feed extends WP_Widget {
8.      function g_twitter_feed()
9.      {
10.            $widget_ops = array('classname' => 'widget-tweets', 'description' => 'Slideshow of twitter feed.');
11.            $control_ops = array('id_base' => 'twitter_feed-widget');
12.            parent::__construct('twitter_feed-widget' , __('(theme)Twitter Feed Slider','generosity'),$widget_ops,$control_ops);
13.      }
14.      function widget($args, $instance)
15.      {
16.            extract($args);
17.            $title = apply_filters('widget_title', $instance['title']);
18.            $number = esc_attr($instance['number']);
19.            $username = esc_attr($instance['username']);
20.            echo wp_kses_post($before_widget);
21.            if($args['id']=='footer-1'||$args['id']=='footer-2'||$args['id']=='footer-3'||$args['id']=='footer-4'):
22.                  if($title) {
23.                        echo wp_kses_post($before_title) . $title . $after_title;
24.                  }
25.                  ?>
26.                  <!-- tweet Slider -->
27.                  <div class="tweets-slider" data-username="<?php echo esc_attr($username) ?>" data-count="<?php echo esc_attr($number) ?>">
28.            </div>
29.            <?php else:
30.                  if($title) {
31.                        echo wp_kses_post($before_title) . $title . $after_title;
32.                  }
33.                  ?>
34.                  <span class="float-username"><a href="https://twitter.com/<?php echo esc_attr($username) ?>">@<?php echo esc_attr($username) ?></a> <i class="fa fa-twitter"></i></span>
35.                  <!-- tweet Slider -->
36.                  <div class="tweet feeds" data-username="<?php echo esc_attr($username) ?>" data-count="<?php echo esc_attr($number) ?>"></div>
37.            <?php
38.            endif;
39.            echo wp_kses_post($after_widget);
40.      }
41.      function update($new_instance, $old_instance)
42.      {
43.            $instance = $old_instance;
44.            $instance['title'] = strip_tags($new_instance['title']);
45.            $instance['number'] = $new_instance['number'];
46.            $instance['username'] = $new_instance['username'];
47.            return $instance;
48.      }
49.      function form($instance)
50.      {
51.            $defaults = array('title' => 'Latest Tweet', 'number' => 3, 'username' => 'username');
52.            $instance = wp_parse_args((array) $instance, $defaults); ?>
53.            <p>
54.                  <label for="<?php echo esc_attr($this->get_field_id('title')); ?>"><?php _e('Title:','generosity') ?></label>
55.                  <input class="widefat" style="width: 216px;" id="<?php echo esc_attr($this->get_field_id('title')); ?>" name="<?php echo esc_attr($this->get_field_name('title')); ?>" value="<?php echo esc_attr($instance['title']); ?>" />
56.            </p>
57. <p>
58.                  <label for="<?php echo esc_attr($this->get_field_id('username')); ?>"><?php _e('Username:','generosity') ?></label>
59.                  <input class="widefat" style="width: 180px;" id="<?php echo esc_attr($this->get_field_id('username')); ?>" name="<?php echo esc_attr($this->get_field_name('username')); ?>" value="<?php echo esc_attr($instance['username']); ?>" />
60.            </p>      
61.            <p>
62.                  <label for="<?php echo esc_attr($this->get_field_id('number')); ?>"><?php _e('Number of tweets to show:','generosity') ?></label>
63.                  <input class="widefat" style="width: 30px;" id="<?php echo esc_attr($this->get_field_id('number')); ?>" name="<?php echo esc_attr($this->get_field_name('number')); ?>" value="<?php echo esc_attr($instance['number']); ?>" />
64.            </p>
65.      <?php
66.      }
67. }
68. ?>