Hey!
I have an MVC based application and I need to have access to my Model
object in different parts of the application (controller, templates(read
operations), view helpers, plugins ...). So I first thought of passing
it to each class that needs it, however it's not very elegant to pass it
to 6 classes until it arrives at a class that actually needs it.
So my second attempt was to create a singleton, but the problem is that
my model needs configuration data in order to be instantiated correctly.
So whenever I would call the getInstance(...) method I need to have the
model's configuration data available as I can't always be sure that the
getInstance method has been called before and an instance of the model
class already exists. It also doesn't make sense to have a configurable
singleton object as there is always one instance, no mater whether you
pass different configuration data to it.
Last but not least I wanted to create a Registry class, add my model to
it and access it from whatever method I want. This however makes unit
testing harder and has all the site effects which global variables have.
So how do you handle your model/database object? What's the best way?
Thanks!
Jakob
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