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| Sep 24, 2010 at 16:16 | comment | added | Tarka | Only time I've ever seen need for it is database connections. That said, nearly every "Service" (read: similar to factory) class in this project at work is a singleton, stored in the PHP $_SESSION variable. | |
| Sep 24, 2010 at 15:31 | comment | added | Cristian | Of course, in those cases it's not needed... what about when you really need one object to do some job, synchronously, and thread safe. Singleton is not just for holding the state of some static variables, it's a real object with real job to do, etc. | |
| Sep 24, 2010 at 15:01 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | Funny, but I've never had the need to use a Singleton. If I need someplace to hold global state, I put it in a configuration file and use a normal class to access it. | |
| Sep 24, 2010 at 14:43 | history | answered | Cristian | CC BY-SA 2.5 |