RE: [PHP-PEAR] PEAR Status

Quoting Seth Fitzsimmons <seth@egrad2000.com>: > In any case, it all seems to work, so thanks for your help! ($db = new > DB_mysql;$db->connect("mysql:...");) Glad to hear that. :) > In a partially related question, does anyone know how it would be possible > to share a single database connection (class) among a number of other > classes without having to pass it as a parameter? (I think Java has > something along this line - a connection pool or something). You might be able to do something along these lines: class Bar { // {{{ singleton() /** * <b>You MUST call this method with the $var = &Bar::singleton() * syntax. Without the ampersand (&) in front of the method name, * you will not get a reference, you will get a copy.</b> */ function &singleton ($key) { static $instances; if (!isset($instances)) $instances = array(); $signature = md5($key); if (!isset($instances[$signature])) { $instances[$signature] = new Bar(); } return $instances[$signature]; } // }}} } I wrote that to provide a way to create only one copy of a class instance. You could probably modify it pretty easily to have a pool of them... -chuck -- I won't die for Fernando Poo