On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 12:46 -0500, Oscar Gosdinski wrote: > > There is something that i always wonder about Singleton pattern in > PHP, do you really have a benefit using this pattern in PHP? The idea > behind this pattern is that only one instance of the class is created, > it works great in Java because all requests are processed inside a JVM > and this instance created will really be the only one defined. Because > in PHP every request has its own environment, you will have several > instances of this class per request processed. Doesn't matter... you may have multiple requests for the object within the same HTTP request. Singleton pattern is very valid in PHP. Cheers, Rob. -- ........................................................... SwarmBuy.com - http://www.swarmbuy.com Leveraging the buying power of the masses! ........................................................... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php