php classes… validation

Question

im am making a php validation class with sub classes that extend it, eg, mobile, suburb, credit_card, ect

so, the idea is you can call

$validation =          


        

Answer 1

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public function type($type) {
    return new self($type);
}
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Note: This one every time returns a new instance of your Validator class so it would be a better idea to use the Factory pattern as Dennis suggested or not to tie the new Validator to the type() method.