[PHP] Making a good singleton registry class structure which hold your objects
- by Saif Bechan
I am working on a web application in PHP. I have a singleton class called registry. This class will hold all the objects i need throughout my application, such as loader classes, template classes, database, classes, etc.
When an object of the registry class is created I send it an array with the classes it need to load:
// Create the registry
$registry = registry::singleton();
// Store those core objects
$registry->storeObjects(Array('session','db','page','template','errors'));
In this example I only put some of the classes, to get the basic idea.
Now I have some classes in the registry that use each other. For example the 'errors' object uses the 'page' object.
Now I was wondering if it is a good practice to make an instance of the registry object in the errors object. Like this;
class errors{
private $registry;
public function __construct(){
$this->registry = registry::singleton();
}
}
So there is an instance of the registry object, inside an object of the registry object. This does not sound like a good idea to me. Anyone have a suggestion how to model such a thing?
