singleton - trying to initialise a static property on creation fails

Question

I have a singleton class used to initialise error_handling.

The class as is takes a Zend_Config object and optional $appMode in parameter, to allow overriding the def

Answer 1

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class ErrorHandling{

  private static $instance;
  private static $_appMode;  // not initialised in returned instance
  private $_errorConfig;

 private function __construct(array $config, $appMode = null){

   $this->_errorConfig = $config;

   if(isset($appMode)){
       self::$_appMode = $appMode;
   }else{
         self::$_appMode = APPMODE;
   }  
 }

 private final function  __clone(){}

 public static function getInstance(array $config, $appMode = null){
     if(! (self::$instance instanceof self)){
         self::$instance = new ErrorHandling($config, $appMode);
     } 
     return self::$instance;
 }

 public static function getAppMode() {
    return self::$_appMode;
 }
} 

$e = ErrorHandling::getInstance(array('dev' => true), -255);
var_dump($e, ErrorHandling::getAppMode());

Is that your want?

Your could read here about difference between static and self- late static binding

Answer 2

You probably don't use any 5.3.x-Version of PHP. "Late Static Binding" (static::$_appMode) is not available in any version before. Use self::$_appMode instead. Its slightly different from static, but in your case it should be OK. For further info read Manual: Late Static Binding