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pornel on May 27, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: These are things in PHP which make me sad

Indeed. In 5.3 you could have regular functions in a namespace, so there's no need to abuse class for that any more.

Other than that it smells like a variation of the singleton antipattern.

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