Benefits of using a constructor?

Question

In my quest in trying to learn more about OOP in PHP. I have come across the constructor function a good few times and simply can\'t ignore it anymore. In my understanding,

Answer 1

The constructor is for initialisation done when an object is created.

You would not want to call an arbitrary method on a newly created object because this goes against the idea of encapsulation, and would require code using this object to have inherent knowledge of its inner workings (and requires more effort).