On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Robert Cummings <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'll second Rodrigo's opinion, but would like to comment that the name of > the class is misleading since it's called "Singleton". The singleton pattern > is used when you only ever want one instantiation of a class. In your case > you are using static methods, the object never needs to be instantiated and > so it doesn't fit this pattern. What you are creating is far more consistent > with the utility pattern. Ahhh, thanks so much for the clarification and details! That's very helpful. I've updated my gist to reflect the pattern name: <https://gist.github.com/mhulse/6441525> Much appreciated. :) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php