I need some advise on my PHP code organisation.
I need classes where I can store different functions, and I need access to those classes in different parts of my project. Making an object of this classes each time is too sadly, so I've found a two ways have to solve it.
First is to use static methods, like
class car {
public static $wheels_count = 4;
public static function change_wheels_count($new_count) {
car::$wheels_count = $new_count;
} }
Second is to use singleton pattern:
class Example {
// Hold an instance of the class
private static $instance;
// The singleton method
public static function singleton()
{
if (!isset(self::$instance)) {
$c = __CLASS__;
self::$instance = new $c;
}
return self::$instance;
} }
But author of the article about singletons said, that if I have too much singletons in my code I should reconstruct it. But I need a lot of such classes.
Can anybody explain pros and cons of each way? Which is mostly used? Are there more beautiful ways?
