How to call and return the result of a chain in a constructor?

Question

PHP

Hello.
I'm parsing ActiveRecord step by step and I can't understand how this principle works. If I return a chain in the constructor, then there is no data. If I pull from the outside, then everything works.
As I understand it, the problem is that the constructor cannot return anything and you need to call this chain outside the constructor. I can’t understand how ActiveRecord does it, I already got lost in their code.
Please point me in the right direction.

class Member{
    static function find($params=null){
        return new Query(get_called_class(),$params);
    }
}


class Query{
    public function __construct($className, $params = []){
        if (is_numeric($params)) {
            $this->where("id = ?", $params)->one();
        }
    }
    /* where select etc... */
}

$member =   Member::find(1); // Нет списка из базы
$member =   Member::find()->where("id = ?", 1)->one();  // Есть список из базы

Answer 1

https://github.com/jpfuentes2/php-activerecord/blo...