Posted by Gordon Burditt on 01/14/06 20:04

>To add to my growing library of Design Patterns in PHP 5 I have
>written what I think is a good example of the Singleton Pattern.
>
>http://www.fluffycat.com/PHP-Design-Patterns/Singleton/
>
>In the classic singleton pattern an object will distribute one and
>only one instance of itself. This can be useful for the sharing of
>resources such as a single db or network connection.

Why would one assume that there is only one instance of a database
connection or only one network connection? Isn't that almost as
bad as assuming that *THE ONLY* user presses *THE ONLY* key on
*THE ONLY* keyboard with *THE ONLY* finger?

Gordon L. Burditt

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