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copied!<p>There are few thing that seem wrong in this case.</p> <p>First of all , there are two similar structures which are used for object creation:</p> <ul> <li>factories: if object requires some sort of initialization before released for 'consumption' </li> <li>builders: if before creating object you have to create bunch of other objects</li> </ul> <p>Usually people do not distinguish between the two, and just call them "Factories". So these would be two case where you use a factory.</p> <p>What you have right now does not fit the description. You are creating some sort of database connection, then getting some data, and then using it for creating a list of objects. This is not a reusable code.</p> <p>It would be much better if the usage of factory would be something like this :</p> <pre><code>$connection = new PDO( .. blah.. ); $stmt = $connection->query( 'SELECT * FROM '.$type.' LIMIT '.$count ); $factory = new Factory; $collection = $factory->buildCollection( $type, $stmt->fetchALL(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC) ); </code></pre> <p>Of course, with factory class which implements this behavior.</p> <p>Additionally , you might want to watch (assuming, that you haven't seen already) two videos on the subject: </p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlfLCWKxHJ0">Don't Look For Things!</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEhu57pih5w">Unit Testing</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FRm3VPhseI">Global State and Singletons</a></li> </ul>

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