/**
 * If you need to support several types of Singletons in your app, you can
 * define the basic features of the Singleton in a base class, while moving the
 * actual business logic (like logging) to subclasses.
 */
class Singleton
{
    /**
     * The actual singleton's instance almost always resides inside a static
     * field. In this case, the static field is an array, where each subclass of
     * the Singleton stores its own instance.
     */
    private static $instances = [];

    /**
     * Singleton's constructor should not be public. However, it can't be
     * private either if we want to allow subclassing.
     */
    protected function __construct() { }

    /**
     * Cloning and unserialization are not permitted for singletons.
     */
    protected function __clone() { }

    public function __wakeup()
    {
        throw new \Exception("Cannot unserialize singleton");
    }

    /**
     * The method you use to get the Singleton's instance.
     */
    public static function getInstance()
    {
        $subclass = static::class;
        if (!isset(self::$instances[$subclass])) {
            // Note that here we use the "static" keyword instead of the actual
            // class name. In this context, the "static" keyword means "the name
            // of the current class". That detail is important because when the
            // method is called on the subclass, we want an instance of that
            // subclass to be created here.
           
            self::$instances[$subclass] = new static;
        }
        return self::$instances[$subclass];
    }
}