Re: singleton in php?

unsubscribeOn September 5, 2018 at 2:56 AM Pete Ford <pete@justcroft.com> wrote:On 02/09/18 21:15, Jeffry Killen wrote:Hello;I have been trying to get a better understanding of "singleton".It is defined as a class that can only produce one instance ofitself.In the online explanation, that is accomplished by aprivate constructor function that produces an instanceof the class within its instance.But in php I am of the understanding that a constructorfunction has to be made public and can't return anything.Here is the online reference I am looking at:https://www.techopedia.com/definition/15830/singletonSo, at some point it seems that the class instance has tobe exported via a return statement at some point, otherwisehow would it be used in other code?Is there a part of the manual that addresses this?I have a hard copy text* on PHP that addresses the singletonand factory pattern, but I have not been able to completelycomprehend either of these.*I don't have immediate access to the book and don't rememberthe title, but the publisher is Friends of Ed / (Apress).I have been further thrown off by the use of singletonto refer to an object literal in javascript.I realize that this in not about javascript but the conceptand this use of the term has me confused.More than one object literal can be created and subsequentlycloned by code, so how is it a singleton, in the general sense?Thank you for time and attention.JKNot sure where you got the "constructor function has to be made public" from: constructors can be private or protected in PHP just like most other OO languages. You then hold a static instance of the singleton class, and access it or create it with a static method.So your basic code is something like: class MySingleton {     private static $MY_INSTANCE = NULL;     private function __construct($params)     {         /* Do stuff */     }     public static function getInstance($params)     {         if (self::$MY_INSTANCE===NULL)         {             self::$MY_INSTANCE = new MySingleton($params);         }         return self::$MY_INSTANCE;     }I think that should work - anyone else got any corrections?CheersPete