Posted by taps128 on 12/03/07 16:15

adam.timberlake@gmail.com wrote:
> I was reading an article on TalkPHP (http://www.talkphp.com/
> showthread.php?t=1304) about singletons but I'm afraid I don't
> understand why I need to use them. I understand how to code them
> perfectly, it's just the theory I'm having some problems with. I did
> try searching on Wikipedia but it didn't yield any satisfactory
> reasoning, for me.
>
> Could someone explain it to me in basic terms, please. I initially
> came across singletons when I was looking for ways in which to save on
> the extra memory of instantiating many of the same objects, and if I
> am right, a singleton would do just that? I'm just not sure how as it
> looks fairly straightforward in its implementation.
>
> Thanks in advance.

I generally use singletons when parsing a page. I don't really need to
create different instacdes of an object, so I use a singletom. I could
achieve the same effect using a procedural style, but its easily to
mantain a class.

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