call the construct class again trough another function of the class in PHP?

Question

I want to call the __construct function again in my class

something like this:

class user{
    function __construct($ID = null)
    {
        if($ID){
            //code
        }

    function findUser()
    {
        //code
        $this->__construct($ID);
    }
}

of course this does not work, but what is the correct way to do this?

Answer 1

If you want to overwrite the current values in the current instance, I would do this:

class user{
    function __construct($ID = null)
    {
        $this->reinit($ID);
    }

    function reinit($id)
    {
        if($id) {
            //code
        }
    }
}