Is there a use-case for singletons with database access in PHP?

Question

I access my MySQL database via PDO. I\'m setting up access to the database, and my first attempt was to use the following:

The first thing I thought of is glob

Answer 1

You are not missing anything, as far as I can see. The example is pretty flawed. It would make difference, if the singleton class had some non-static instance variables.