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[Phil Powell]

Dan Cech wrote:

> What you want is:
>
> class ActionHandler {
>   function &getErrorArray () {
>     return ActionHandler::setErrorArray ();
>   }
>
>   function &setErrorArray ($additionalErrorArray = NULL) {
>     static $errorArray;
>
>     if ( !is_array ($errorArray) ) {
>       $errorArray = array();
>     }
>
>     if ( is_array ($additionalErrorArray) ) {
>       $errorArray = array_merge ($errorArray, $additionalErrorArray);
>     }
>
>     return $errorArray;
>   }
> }
>
> Dan
>
> Phil Powell wrote:
>
>> Actually I did just that..
>>
>> class ActionHandler {
>>
>>  function &ActionHandler($errorArray = '') {
>>   if (!is_array($errorArray)) {
>>    static $errorArray = array();
>>   } else {
>>    $this->errorArray =& $errorArray;
>>   }
>>  }
>>
>>  function &getErrorArray() {
>>   static $instance;
>>   if (!isset($instance)) {
>>    $instance =& new ActionHandler($this->errorArray);
>>    $instance->setErrorArray($this->errorArray);
>>    return $instance->errorArray;
>>   }
>>   return $this->errorArray;
>>  }
>>
>>  function &setErrorArray($additionalErrorArray) {
>>   if (is_array($additionalErrorArray)) array_merge($this->errorArray, 
>> $additionalErrorArray);
>>  }
>>
>> }
>>
>> This construct did not give me the results i wanted, for example, in 
>> the class FileGenerator, it does stuff and if something fails:
>>
>> ActionHandler::setErrorArray(array('action' => 'Something broke'));
>>
>> Which is fine.. I do a print_r(ActionHandler::getErrorArray()) from 
>> the FileHandler class object and this is what I see:
>>
>> Array (action => Something broke)
>>
>> HOWEVER... if I then go to ANOTHER class and IMMEDIATELY AFTER I have 
>> done my setErrorArray() from FileHandler class I do this:
>>
>> print_r(ActionHandler::getErrorArray())
>>
>> I see this
>>
>> Array ()
>>
>> FileHandler class succssfully sets the what-should-be-single-instance 
>> array $errorArray, but then the next class after it sees nothing in 
>> $errorArray.
>>
>> The construct I want to create is what is in Java the singleton 
>> class: i want only ONE instance of ActionHandler to persist.. every 
>> single class can then add to the one single-instance array 
>> $errorArray whatever it wants and $errorArray will retain everything 
>> it gets.
>>
>> Phil
>
>
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Sorry, Dan, that failed too.  It worked in FileGenerator class, but the 
next class does a print_r(ActionHandler::getErrorArray()) and the array 
value is null again.

Phil

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