更现代的方法: 你把独立的类混合成一个，实体和数据水合。 对于你的案例，你应该有两个类:

class Student 
{
   protected $id;
   protected $name;
   // etc.
}
class StudentHydrator
{
   public function hydrate(Student $student, array $data){
      $student->setId($data['id']);
      if(isset($data['name')){
        $student->setName($data['name']);
      }
      // etc. Can be replaced with foreach
      return $student;
   }
}

//usage
$hydrator = new StudentHydrator();
$student = $hydrator->hydrate(new Student(), ['id'=>4]);
$student2 = $hydrator->hydrate(new Student(), $rowFromDB);

另外请注意，您应该使用doctrine或其他已经提供自动实体水合的ORM。 你应该使用依赖注入来跳过手动创建像StudentHydrator这样的对象。

正如在其他评论中所述，由于PHP不支持重载，通常会避免构造函数中的“类型检查技巧”，而是使用工厂模式

ie.

$myObj = MyClass::factory('fromInteger', $params);
$myObj = MyClass::factory('fromRow', $params);

另一种选择是像这样在构造函数中使用默认参数

class Student {

    private $id;
    private $name;
    //...

    public function __construct($id, $row=array()) {
        $this->id = $id;
        foreach($row as $key => $value) $this->$key = $value;
    }
}

这意味着你需要实例化一行像这样:$student = new student ($row['id']， $row)，但保持你的构造函数漂亮和干净。

另一方面，如果你想利用多态性，那么你可以创建两个类，像这样:

class Student {

    public function __construct($row) {
         foreach($row as $key => $value) $this->$key = $value;
    }
}

class EmptyStudent extends Student {

    public function __construct($id) {
        parent::__construct(array('id' => $id));
    }
}

对于php7，我也比较了参数类型，你可以有两个具有相同数量的参数但不同类型的构造函数。

trait GenericConstructorOverloadTrait
{
    /**
     * @var array Constructors metadata
     */
    private static $constructorsCache;
    /**
     * Generic constructor
     * GenericConstructorOverloadTrait constructor.
     */
    public function __construct()
    {
        $params = func_get_args();
        $numParams = func_num_args();

        $finish = false;

        if(!self::$constructorsCache){
            $class = new \ReflectionClass($this);
            $constructors =  array_filter($class->getMethods(),
                function (\ReflectionMethod $method) {
                return preg_match("/\_\_construct[0-9]+/",$method->getName());
            });
            self::$constructorsCache = $constructors;
        }
        else{
            $constructors = self::$constructorsCache;
        }
        foreach($constructors as $constructor){
            $reflectionParams = $constructor->getParameters();
            if(count($reflectionParams) != $numParams){
                continue;
            }
            $matched = true;
            for($i=0; $i< $numParams; $i++){
                if($reflectionParams[$i]->hasType()){
                    $type = $reflectionParams[$i]->getType()->__toString();
                }
                if(
                    !(
                        !$reflectionParams[$i]->hasType() ||
                        ($reflectionParams[$i]->hasType() &&
                            is_object($params[$i]) &&
                            $params[$i] instanceof $type) ||
                        ($reflectionParams[$i]->hasType() &&
                            $reflectionParams[$i]->getType()->__toString() ==
                            gettype($params[$i]))
                    )
                ) {
                    $matched = false;
                    break;
                }

            }

            if($matched){
                call_user_func_array(array($this,$constructor->getName()),
                    $params);
                $finish = true;
                break;
            }
        }

        unset($constructor);

        if(!$finish){
            throw new \InvalidArgumentException("Cannot match construct by params");
        }
    }

}

使用它:

class MultiConstructorClass{

    use GenericConstructorOverloadTrait;

    private $param1;

    private $param2;

    private $param3;

    public function __construct1($param1, array $param2)
    {
        $this->param1 = $param1;
        $this->param2 = $param2;
    }

    public function __construct2($param1, array $param2, \DateTime $param3)
    {
        $this->__construct1($param1, $param2);
        $this->param3 = $param3;
    }

    /**
     * @return \DateTime
     */
    public function getParam3()
    {
        return $this->param3;
    }

    /**
     * @return array
     */
    public function getParam2()
    {
        return $this->param2;
    }

    /**
     * @return mixed
     */
    public function getParam1()
    {
        return $this->param1;
    }
}

按数据类型调用构造函数:

class A 
{ 
    function __construct($argument)
    { 
       $type = gettype($argument);

       if($type == 'unknown type')
       {
            // type unknown
       }

       $this->{'__construct_'.$type}($argument);
    } 

    function __construct_boolean($argument) 
    { 
        // do something
    }
    function __construct_integer($argument) 
    { 
        // do something
    }
    function __construct_double($argument) 
    { 
        // do something
    }
    function __construct_string($argument) 
    { 
        // do something
    }
    function __construct_array($argument) 
    { 
        // do something
    }
    function __construct_object($argument) 
    { 
        // do something
    }
    function __construct_resource($argument) 
    { 
        // do something
    }

    // other functions

} 

PHP是一种动态语言，因此不能重载方法。你必须像这样检查参数的类型:

class Student 
{
   protected $id;
   protected $name;
   // etc.

   public function __construct($idOrRow){
    if(is_int($idOrRow))
    {
        $this->id = $idOrRow;
        // other members are still uninitialized
    }
    else if(is_array($idOrRow))
    {
       $this->id = $idOrRow->id;
       $this->name = $idOrRow->name;
       // etc.  
    }
}