title: Is it possible to exit gracefully in a constructor?
body: <p>Is it possible to exit gracefully out of a constructor in php? Something to the effect of</p>
  
  <pre><code>class Foo { 
  
   function __construct()
   {
  
     $active = false;
  
     if(!$active)
     {
      return false;
     }
  
   }
  
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm trying to accomplish this because I want to check to see if any of the methods in the class should run based on a configuration file. I don't want to have to check the configuration file in every method to see if the methods should be running.</p>