Re: do pear packages create their own seperate DB connections?

Alan Knowles wrote:

I generally use: function &getInstance() { static $instance; if (!isset($instance)) {

      $instance = new Class(); // NOT by reference

} return $instance; }

be wary of doing this where performance is an issue - dataobjects used something like this to store options early on. - - PEAR::getStaticProperty() ** note this could be used for singletons as well. however after alot of profiling I realized that it was slowing down the whole application. if you have to get the singleton of a class often it's better to stick with $GLOBALS etc.

you mean 'static' is slow? how can that be? -- Wolfram ... opensource @ vision:produktion ... http://opensource.visionp.de ... translating template engine .... http://sf.net/projects/simpletpl ... authentication system .... http://sf.net/projects/auth