Re: Looking for info on Pear concepts and classes
| From: | Stig S. Bakken | Date: | Sun, 29 Jul 2001 15:43:16 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Looking for info on Pear concepts and classes | ||
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giancarlo pinerolo wrote:
>
> > > That article started to clarify me some concepts, but other remain in
> > > the darkness, for example about the 'factory' , what the
> > > 'destructor' ,
> > > the installer, etc.
>
> > If you want to learn about factory methods and other interesting
> > techniques, pick up a book about design patterns (see ISBN 0201633612).
> > Martin pretty much covered the rest of your questions.
> ù
>
> Looking at the packages, I found that there is no 'factory' method
> in the PEAR class.
> Does/can not the 'factory' concept apply to other things than the DB?
The "factory pattern" is just something you can use in your code
design. It's not a feature of PEAR, but some PEAR packages use that way
of creating "customized objects".
- Stig