singleton inside functions

[phpJoeMo]

OK, so I'm trying to create a central db class for data validation, etc.  I'm starting off with the data.

 

this code works for me, I just want to be sure that I'm not missing anything.  Will dbData be accessible globally?

 

class dbData{
    function regex_key_data($reg){
            $z = '/[a-z\s\'{1}]*/';
            $d=       array(  'domain'=>'/^[a-z0-9-.]+\.[a-z0-9]{2,4}$/i',
                        'email'=>'/^[a-z0-9._-]+@[a-z0-9._-]+\.[a-z]+$/i',
                        'GUID'=>'/[A-Z0-9]{8}-[A-Z0-9]{4}-[A-Z0-9]{4}-[A-Z0-9]{4}-[A-Z0-9]{12}/',
                        'html'=>'*htmlentities',
                        'int'=>'[0-9]',
                        'string'=>'*mysql_real_escape_string',
                        'fname'=>$z,
                        'lname'=>$z
                    );
            return $d[$reg];
    }
    function test($reg,$val){
        
        $z = preg_match(dbData::regex_key_data($reg),$val ,$dom);
        return ($z?$dom[0]:false);
    }
    
}
function clean_it($v,$type = 'none'){
    $v = urldecode($v);

    if(!empty($v)){

            switch($type){
                    case 'domain':
                            
                            return dbData::test('domain',$v);
                            break;
                    case 'email':
                            preg_match('/^[a-z0-9._-]+@[a-z0-9._-]+\.[a-z]+$/i', $v,$email);
                            if(empty($email[0])){return 'empty';}
                            else{return mysql_real_escape_string($email[0]);}
                            break;
                    case 'GUID':
                            return 	mysql_real_escape_string($v);
                            break;
                    case 'html':
                            return 	mysql_real_escape_string(htmlentities($v));
                            break;
                    case 'int':
                            if(is_numeric($v)){return $v;}
                            break;
                    case 'string':
                            return mysql_real_escape_string($v);
                            break;
            }

    }
    else{
        switch($type){
                case 'domain':
                case 'none':
                case 'string':
                case 'email':
                case 'GUID':
                case 'html':
                        return 'empty';
                        break;
                case 'int':
                        return 0;
                        break;
        }	
    }
}
$br = '<br/>';
echo dbData::test('GUID','ASDFASDF-ASDF-ASDF-ASDF-ASDFASDFASDF').$br;
echo dbData::test('email','[email protected]').$br;
echo clean_it('asdfsdf.com','domain');

[xyph]

You should define your methods as static, if they are to be used statically

 

public static function test () {}

 

As long as you aren't referencing anything as an object within your class though, you should be fine.

 

Edit - rather than use dbData::Method WITHIN your class, you should use self::Method

[phpJoeMo]

Thanks for the advice.

 

I'm assuming that your are referring to php5 best practices by using public static?

 

Is this mainly for code readability?

 

I'm juggling between my hosting which uses php4 and zend php cert. 5.3 that I'm studying for.

[xyph]

Calling non-static methods statically generates an E_STRICT level warning.

 

It's technically wrong the way you have it, but PHP allows it for some reason. Possibly backwards-compatibility.

 

Read up more here

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.static.php