Re: Problems with Database Singleton Class

On Friday 14 of April 2006 17:51, Vandegrift, Ken wrote: > class WebDBConn { > > private static $instance = NULL; > > private function __construct() { > > self::$instance = new PDO($db, $user, $pwd); > self::$instance->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, > PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION); > } > > public static function getInstance() { > > if (!self::$instance) { > self::$instance = new WebDBConn; Here you overwrite your instance of PDO class with WebDBConn instance. > } > return self::$instance; > } > } What you should do, is put the $instance initialization which you have in __construct(), to the getInstance() method in place of 'self::$instance = new WebDBConn'. __construct() can be empty as you do not need an instance of WebDBConn (everything is static). Martin