Re: general questions

On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 01:40:41AM +0100, Lukas Smith wrote : > I guess you are right ... so a factory is not supposed to reside in side > the class it is "producing" for? Why? In fact, 'factory' is just a function which gets a parameter and depending on this it returns an object. Because all the classes accessing the different databases support by PHP share the same interface (all methods are named the same) you won't notice much difference at first wether you get back a myself or an oracle object. It could also be a standalone function not being part of some class but the idea is also not to pollute the global namespace but keep things within their respective home (looking forward to ZE2 which supports "something like" namespaces, static class properties and class constants). And, residing the factory function in the class it is producing for doesn't reallt work out because it isn't producing just an object for this class but for any kind of appropriate database class when using PEAR::DB. - Markus -- Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists.