Re: Static vs. Instantiated Objects in PHP

On Thu, April 20, 2006 7:15 pm, Mark Baldwin wrote: > What?!? Why the need to make faces? Seems like a legitimate question > to ask what goes on behind the scenes when you program a certain way. Because your analysis (deleted for brevity) is rather shallow. Perhaps static objects create an instance, but cache it, but only for a certain amount of time to save on RAM. Or not. I don't know, nor care, nor should you. All you REALLY should care about is: 1. Maintainability. 2. Reliability. 3. Performance. All of which can (probably) best be analyzed by ignoring the "behind the scenes" and benchmarking and writing good tests -- tests on your hardware, with your software, specifically geared to your application needs. "Knowing" what PHP/Zend is doing behind the scenes is likely to be, at best, an incomplete and mis-construed view-point. I trust this clarifies why, imho, your post was a Bad Question and would be better answered by your trying out the two possible paradigms and testing them for YOUR needs. YMMV NAIAA IANAL -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm