note 54401 added to language.oop5.patterns

Here's an effective strategy for creating singletons. 1.) define an __autoload() function 2.) Define all properties of a class to be static 3.) Make the constructor private. Now, anywhere in your code, you can simply do as follows: Class::Function(); The __autoload() function will take care of loading the class. It's even better when you use the auto_prepend directive to define __autoload(). Now you can create a php script which looks like this: <?php TemplateSystem::Start(); echo 'This is just a test!'; TemplateSystem::Stop(); ?> Now you've effectively got a 2-line solution to all templating issues, the templates will be available to every script, and the only additional overhead that you'll have for scripts that don't use the templating system is a 3-line autoload function! Obviously, there's still a problem with __autoload() if you are attempting to write a templating system that has to work with someone else's software that also defines __autoload(). The best advice I can give here is to remove one of the __autoload()'s and modify the other to work with both. ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.patterns.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+54401 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+54401&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+54401&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+54401&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+54401&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: non-english -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+54401&report=yes&reason=non-english Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+54401&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+54401&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php