Note that you still have a typo, but maybe it's only in your email messages:
class simpleConstructer {
function __construct() {
echo "running the constructor";
}
}
$test = new simpleConstructor();
The class is misspelled; it should be simpleConstructor. As a side note,
it's common convention to name classes with a leading capital letter, e.g.
SimpleConstructor. That's just convention, though, and I'm sure it differs
in some languages. Even in PHP stdClass doesn't, but most other classes do.
David