I have decided to use the singleton pattern for my application. It makes the most sense to me. However, just when I feel like I have made some progress I run into another wall.
I have a load function. The load function does the following.
Check if class has been previously loaded. - If so - return $class::get_instance(); - Otherwise - look for class in various places - if found - return $class::get_instance(); - else return error.
Before adopting the Singleton pattern I was instantiating classes with the load class.
In the controller I would have this.
$session = $this->load->library('session');
The load class would then find the file and return..
return new $class_name;
I hoped that the in changing the method of loading classes it would be a tweak to a few lines but these tweaks are generating syntax errors.
return $class_name::get_instance();
Is there a way to write the line above without the syntax error?
How about using call_user_func?
return call_user_func(array($class_name, "get_instance"));