How can I use proper object-oriented models in CodeIgniter with constructors?

You can do it like you normally would:

require_once(APPPATH.'models/User.php');$User = new User($userID);

Or, you can rely on a table-level model to return a record-level model:

$this->load->model('users_model'); // users (plural) is the table-level model$User = $this->users_model->get_user($userID);

Meanwhile, in users_model

require_once(APPPATH.'models/User.php');public function get_user($userID){  // get a record from the db  // map record to model  // return model}

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