From 3d81e2ef70dbbfbeec6d8852fcda22858fecf1c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lucas <lucas@semalead.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 14:17:16 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Update create() and added __construct()

---
 src/Stringy/Stringy.php | 22 +++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/Stringy/Stringy.php b/src/Stringy/Stringy.php
index 256d07a..eafc4e5 100644
--- a/src/Stringy/Stringy.php
+++ b/src/Stringy/Stringy.php
@@ -8,6 +8,20 @@ class Stringy
 
     public $encoding;
 
+    /**
+     * Inializes a Stringy object and assigns both str and encoding properties
+     * the supplied values. If $encoding is not specified, it defaults to
+     * mb_internal_encoding().
+     *
+     * @param   string   $str       String to modify
+     * @param   string   $encoding  The character encoding
+     */
+    public function __construct($str, $encoding = null)
+    {
+        $this->str = $str;
+        $this->encoding = $encoding ?: mb_internal_encoding();
+    }
+
     /**
      * Creates a Stringy object and assigns both str and encoding properties
      * the supplied values. If $encoding is not specified, it defaults to
@@ -19,13 +33,7 @@ class Stringy
      */
     public static function create($str, $encoding = null)
     {
-        $encoding = $encoding ?: mb_internal_encoding();
-
-        $stringyObj = new self();
-        $stringyObj->str = $str;
-        $stringyObj->encoding = $encoding;
-
-        return $stringyObj;
+        return new static($str, $encoding);
     }
 
     /**

From 660b1d6de85e39579f9d1a8d7040367634986e59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lucas <lucas@semalead.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 14:32:43 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Added simple constructor test

---
 tests/Stringy/StringyTest.php | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tests/Stringy/StringyTest.php b/tests/Stringy/StringyTest.php
index d6ab75b..a3ef0c8 100644
--- a/tests/Stringy/StringyTest.php
+++ b/tests/Stringy/StringyTest.php
@@ -7,6 +7,14 @@ use Stringy\Stringy as S;
 
 class StringyTestCase extends CommonTest
 {
+    public function testConstruct()
+    {
+        $constructed = new S('foo bar', 'UTF-8');
+        $this->assertInstanceOf('Stringy\Stringy', $constructed);
+        $created = S::create('foo bar', 'UTF-8');
+        $this->assertEquals($constructed, $created);
+    }
+
     public function testCreate()
     {
         $stringy = S::create('foo bar', 'UTF-8');