Schedule algorithm

[eluser]Pascal Kriete[/eluser]
How about a factory?

Code:

class Schedule_team
{
    // Stores objects
    private static $_teams = array();
    
    // Regular class variables
    public $name;
    
    // Constructor - factory does most of the work
    public function __construct() {}
    
    // Factory
    public static function factory($name)
    {
        if ( ! isset(Schedule_team::$_teams[$name]))
        {
            $team = new Schedule_team();
            $team->name = $name;

            Schedule_team::$_teams[$name] = $team;
        }
        else
        {
            $team = Schedule_team::$_teams[$name];
        }
        
        return $team;
    }
}

Make that a library, and use it:

Code:

$this->load->library('schedule_team');

$a = Schedule_team::factory('ateam');
$b = Schedule_team::factory('bteam');

echo $a->name, ' ', $b->name;

In it's current form it will also return a team if you already have on of the same name. Depending on how complex this class is you may want to separate the factory from the actual schedule_team class.