Question

I am managing a website with a custom framework, developed by some programmers who are no longer working in out company. In some parts of the code I saw this:

$class = 'PagesControl';
$obj = clone new $class();

What is this thing supposed to do? Why would you clone an object created like that?

Answer 1

Maybe they have some strange setup in the __clone() method that need to be called just after instatiation but it would be pretty pointless. If the class PagesControl has no __clone() method, just take off the clone, otherwise put the code that is present in the __clone() method inside the __construct()