PHP constructors and static functions

Question

I\'m a bit confused on how constructors work in PHP.

I have a class with a constructor which gets called when I instantiate a new object.

$foo = new Foo(         


        

Answer 1

Here is my workaround:

I put method construct() in static class. Notice, it is different than __construct() which I use in regular classes.

Each class is in own file, so I lazy load that file on first use of class. This gives me event of first use of class.

spl_autoload_register(function($class) {

    include_once './' . $class . '.php';

    if (method_exists($class, 'construct')) {
        $class::construct();
    }
});