Re: Re: Maildir Class

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 02 August 2004 03:04 pm, Andrew Boothman wrote: > I'm having a bit of a problem with that - apparently I can't return > anything but a new Mail_Maildir object from the object's constructor, > meaning that I can't return a PEAR_Error object if the directory can't > be opened or whatever. > > For the moment I'm using an open() method to do the work instead, do you > have any suggestions for how to deal with this correctly? I understand > there is some new work going on reguarding error handling in PEAR, and > even that PHP5 includes some better error-handling but I'm not sure how > to deal with it using the present infrastructure. > Use a factory method, so you create a new instance with $md = &Mail_Maildir::factory('/path/to/maildir'); You might also want to provide a singleton pattern. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBDshAxuUdPD6j2IMRAg4dAJ9qpZdi2jn15+mSDY8NRakWsbfKegCeISRg 4xl58tt2dZwkjaBICvFJWJc= =bFd9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----