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Multiton

THIS IS CONSIDERED TO BE AN ANTI-PATTERN! FOR BETTER TESTABILITY AND MAINTAINABILITY USE DEPENDENCY INJECTION!

Purpose#

To have only a list of named instances that are used, like a singleton but with n instances.

Examples#

  • 2 DB Connectors, e.g. one for MySQL, the other for SQLite
  • multiple Loggers (one for debug messages, one for errors)

UML Diagram#

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Code#

Multiton.php#

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<?php

namespace DesignPatterns\Creational\Multiton;

final class Multiton
{
    const INSTANCE_1 = '1';
    const INSTANCE_2 = '2';

    /**
     * @var Multiton[]
     */
    private static $instances = [];

    /**
     * this is private to prevent from creating arbitrary instances
     */
    private function __construct()
    {
    }

    public static function getInstance(string $instanceName): Multiton
    {
        if (!isset(self::$instances[$instanceName])) {
            self::$instances[$instanceName] = new self();
        }

        return self::$instances[$instanceName];
    }

    /**
     * prevent instance from being cloned
     */
    private function __clone()
    {
    }

    /**
     * prevent instance from being unserialized
     */
    private function __wakeup()
    {
    }
}

Test#