Re: [UPDATE][PROPOSAL] Package: SMS (send and recieveSMSthrough different backends)

function factory('driver',options) { require once ... driver $x = new $class; $ret = $x->init($options); return PEAR::isError($ret) ? $ret : $x; } Tobias Schlitt wrote:

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Which is solved by using a factory :)

Not necessarily. How will teh factory method be notified if an error occurs in the constructor of a driver? I think the init() method is quite usefull to handle initialization of the backend. A normal constructor is used to "create an instance of a defined class" and init() is used to "initialize a specific backend" which is out of scope from the class itself. If you do not use a specific backend you can just set _init = true. Maybe the init method of the driver could be called in the factory. Regards, Toby

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