Re: green bean question on singleton php5

Eric Butera schreef:

On Jan 16, 2008 4:13 PM, Nathan Nobbe <quickshiftin@gmail.com> wrote:

On Jan 16, 2008 3:59 PM, Jochem Maas <jochem@iamjochem.com> wrote:

given that dbaccess doesn't extend mysqli instantiation of dbaccess is completely pointless no?

i dont know; i think using an instance of dbaccess to control a single instance of the mysqli class is appropriate. personally, i wouldnt extend mysqli unless i had a good reason to. i would probly only rationalize this if i wanted to override some of the behavior in a specific way, or extend it in some meaningful way (even then i might use composition). if that isnt the intention i think composition is the best choice for the singleton. more a matter of preference than anything i suppose. at least i cant think of a better reason to argue for composition.

no idea what you mean

ya; some of these posts from you are a little hard to understand, julian. -nathan

I still don't understand the obsession of a singleton in regards to a db connection. Using a registry is a much better practice I think.

I think I alluded to the registry pattern in my reply above - although I'm not sure. could you care to ellaborate what you mean by registry?