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    "title": "Legacy Refactor Question: What About Singletons?",
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    "created": "2014-06-03 15:36:10 UTC",
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    "html": "<p>In <a href=\"http://paul-m-jones.com/archives/2667\">my talk</a> and <a href=\"https://leanpub.com/mlaphp\">my book</a> on refactoring legacy PHP code, one of the early steps is to start removing globals and replace them with dependency injection (not a container, just injecting dependencies by hand.)  I addressed the use of the <code>global</code> keyword and the <code>$_GET</code> (et al) superglobals, but I did not address singletons directly. I had a Reddit correspondent ask about singletons recently, and how to refactor away from them; I answered on <a href=\"http://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/277id9/legacy_refactor_question_what_about_singletons/\">Reddit</a>, where you can read the full conversation.</p>\n"
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