Best practices for static constructors

Question

I want to create an instance of a class and call a method on that instance, in a single line of code.

PHP won\'t allow calling a method on a regular constructor:

Answer 1

The naming of any method should be with intention revealing names. I can't tell what 'Foo::factory' does. Try to build to a higher level language:

User::with100StartingPoints();

This would be the same as:

$user = new User();
$user->setPointsTo(100);

You could also easily test whether User::with100StartingPoints() is equal to this.