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michaelspiss/singleton
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A trait to implement the Singleton design pattern without any dependencies.

v1.0.1(9y ago)014MITPHPPHP >= 5.4

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Singleton
=========

[](#singleton)

A trait to implement the Singleton design pattern without any dependencies.

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Why?
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[](#why)

There already are plenty other singleton packages, so why another one? Simply, because most of those packages implement a factory, rather than a singleton pattern. This and many more things bothered me about them, so here is a simple, dependency-free and fully tested singleton.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

```
$ composer require michaelspiss/singleton

```

Basic Usage
===========

[](#basic-usage)

One line is enough to turn a class into a singleton:

```