Extending singletons in PHP

Question

I'm working in a web app framework, and part of it consists of a number of services, all implemented as singletons. They all extend a Service class, where the singleton behaviour is implemented, looking something like this:

class Service {
    protected static $instance;

    public function Service() {
        if (isset(self::$instance)) {
            throw new Exception('Please use Service::getInstance.');
        }
    }

    public static function &getInstance() {
        if (empty(self::$instance)) {
            self::$instance = new self();
        }
        return self::$instance;
    }
}

Now, if I have a class called FileService implemented like this:

class FileService extends Service {
    // Lots of neat stuff in here
}

... calling FileService::getInstance() will not yield a FileService instance, like I want it to, but a Service instance. I assume the problem here is the "self" keyword used in the Service constructor.

Is there some other way to achieve what I want here? The singleton code is only a few lines, but I'd still like to avoid any code redundance whenever I can.

Answer 1

Use trait instead of a abstract class allows to extend a singleton class.

Use the trait SingletonBase for a parent singleton class.

Use the trait SingletonChild for its singleton childs.

interface Singleton
{

    public static function getInstance(): Singleton;

}

trait SingletonBase
{

    private static $instance=null;

    abstract protected function __construct();

    public static function getInstance(): Singleton {

       if (is_null(self::$instance)) {

          self::$instance=new static();

       }

       return self::$instance;

    } 

    protected function clearInstance(): void {

        self::$instance=null;

    }

    public function __clone()/*: void*/ {

        trigger_error('Class singleton '.get_class($this).' cant be cloned.');
    }

    public function __wakeup(): void {

        trigger_error('Classe singleton '.get_class($this).' cant be serialized.');

    }

}

trait SingletonChild
{

    use SingletonBase;

}

class Bar
{

    protected function __construct(){

    }

}

class Foo extends Bar implements Singleton
{

      use SingletonBase;

}

class FooChild extends Foo implements Singleton
{

      use SingletonChild; // necessary! If not, the unique instance of FooChild will be the same as the unique instance of its parent Foo

}

Answer 2

Had I paid more attention in 5.3 class, I would have known how to solve this myself. Using the new late static binding feature of PHP 5.3, I believe Coronatus' proposition can be simplified into this:

class Singleton {
    protected static $instance;

    protected function __construct() { }

    final public static function getInstance() {
        if (!isset(static::$instance)) {
            static::$instance = new static();
        }

        return static::$instance;
    }

    final private function __clone() { }
}

I tried it out, and it works like a charm. Pre 5.3 is still a whole different story, though.

Answer 3

I have found a good solution.

the following is my code

abstract class Singleton
{
    protected static $instance; // must be protected static property ,since we must use static::$instance, private property will be error

    private function __construct(){} //must be private !!! [very important],otherwise we can create new father instance in it's Child class 

    final protected function __clone(){} #restrict clone

    public static function getInstance()
    {
        #must use static::$instance ,can not use self::$instance,self::$instance will always be Father's static property 
        if (! static::$instance instanceof static) {
            static::$instance = new static();
        }
        return static::$instance;
    }
}

class A extends Singleton
{
   protected static $instance; #must redefined property
}

class B extends A
{
    protected static $instance;
}

$a = A::getInstance();
$b = B::getInstance();
$c = B::getInstance();
$d = A::getInstance();
$e = A::getInstance();
echo "-------";

var_dump($a,$b,$c,$d,$e);

#object(A)#1 (0) { }
#object(B)#2 (0) { } 
#object(B)#2 (0) { } 
#object(A)#1 (0) { } 
#object(A)#1 (0) { }

You can refer http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.late-static-bindings.php for more info

Answer 4

This is fixed Johan's answer. PHP 5.3+

abstract class Singleton
{
    protected function __construct() {}
    final protected function __clone() {}

    final public static function getInstance()
    {
        static $instance = null;

        if (null === $instance)
        {
            $instance = new static();
        }

        return $instance;
    }
}

Answer 5

Code:

abstract class Singleton
{
    protected function __construct()
    {
    }

    final public static function getInstance()
    {
        static $instances = array();

        $calledClass = get_called_class();

        if (!isset($instances[$calledClass]))
        {
            $instances[$calledClass] = new $calledClass();
        }

        return $instances[$calledClass];
    }

    final private function __clone()
    {
    }
}

class FileService extends Singleton
{
    // Lots of neat stuff in here
}

$fs = FileService::getInstance();

If you use PHP < 5.3, add this too:

// get_called_class() is only in PHP >= 5.3.
if (!function_exists('get_called_class'))
{
    function get_called_class()
    {
        $bt = debug_backtrace();
        $l = 0;
        do
        {
            $l++;
            $lines = file($bt[$l]['file']);
            $callerLine = $lines[$bt[$l]['line']-1];
            preg_match('/([a-zA-Z0-9\_]+)::'.$bt[$l]['function'].'/', $callerLine, $matches);
        } while ($matches[1] === 'parent' && $matches[1]);

        return $matches[1];
    }
}