Re: Preferred method for using factory pattern

On Thu Feb 20, 2003 at 04:0343PM +0100, Demian Turner wrote: > What is the preferred method within PEAR for using the factory pattern? > > In Mail it's used like: > > $mail_object =& Mail::factory('sendmail', $params); > > while in Auth, _factory() is private and instantiated like: > > $a = new Auth("DB","mysql://martin:test@example.com/test"); I've made the factory method in PEAR::Auth private, bceause it's only used to internally create a new instance of the storage container. But in most other cases, a factory method is used to return a concrete instance instead. In this case, the method needs to be public of course. -- - Martin Martin Jansen http://martinjansen.com/