Are there any plans to fix this "bug" (or add this as a feature depending on your POV) I have a connection class that uses singletons for each database. We have replication on our PROD boxes but on our VMs we don't, so the code does a little magic to determine if it's an INSERT|UPDATE|DELETE|REPLACE and tries to change to the proper mysql connection (write to master, read from slaves in the case of PROD and just use the same DB on the VM). The problem, and it's quite frustrating considering it doesn't make a lot of logical sense why you couldn't do it, is that PHP doesn't allow the re-assignment of $this. :-\ Both of these fail (of course) $this = Connection::get_instance(self::_determine_RDBMS($mybase[1], true)); $this = self::$_instance_array[$this->_base]; It seems that it should be code-wise do-able by simply having the guts of PHP (the C/C++ code PHP is created with) create a new object - just as it did when creating $this, then just change the pointer that $this is looking at to the new object, throw the old object onto the heap for cleanup. Why is that so difficult?
