Question

I have a class that I am writing and I have a method that I would like to run once per initiation of the class. Normally this would go in the construct method, but I only need it to run when I call certain methods, not all.

How would you all recommend I accomplish this?

Answer 1

Create a private property $methodHasBeenRun which has a defualt value of FALSE, and set it to TRUE in the method. At the start of the method, do:

if ($this->methodHasBeenRun) return;
$this->methodHasBeenRun = TRUE;