Question

I have a singleton class used to initialise error_handling.

The class as is takes a Zend_Config object and optional $appMode in parameter, to allow overriding the defined APPMODE constant when testing this class. All is fine if I create the object with non-static properties, but initialising a static property does not work the way I expected when calling the usual getInstance().

class ErrorHandling{

  private static $instance;
  private static $_appMode;  // not initialised in returned instance
  private $_errorConfig;

 private function __construct(Zend_Config $config, $appMode = null){

   $this->_errorConfig = $config;

   if(isset($appMode)){
       static::$_appMode = $appMode;
   }else{
         static::$_appMode = APPMODE;
   }  
 }

 private final function  __clone(){}

 public static function getInstance(Zend_config $config, $appMode = null){
     if(! (static::$instance instanceof self)){
         static::$instance = new static($config, $appMode);
     } 
     return static::$instance;
 }
}

Not that I really need $_appMode to be static at all, I declared it private and moved on, but I am still wondering if one can initialise static properties from a static function call. If I REALLY needed static $_appMode, I could probably create the object and set the value afterwards with a setter method but this doesn’t “feel” as being the best way to do this.

Answer 1

Checkout

<?

class ErrorHandling{

  private static $instance;
  private static $_appMode;  // not initialised in returned instance
  private $_errorConfig;

 private function __construct(array $config, $appMode = null){

   $this->_errorConfig = $config;

   if(isset($appMode)){
       self::$_appMode = $appMode;
   }else{
         self::$_appMode = APPMODE;
   }  
 }

 private final function  __clone(){}

 public static function getInstance(array $config, $appMode = null){
     if(! (self::$instance instanceof self)){
         self::$instance = new ErrorHandling($config, $appMode);
     } 
     return self::$instance;
 }

 public static function getAppMode() {
    return self::$_appMode;
 }
} 

$e = ErrorHandling::getInstance(array('dev' => true), -255);
var_dump($e, ErrorHandling::getAppMode());

Is that your want?

Your could read here about difference between static and self– late static binding