class CrayonBox {
/**
* Return valid colors as color name => array(red, green, blue)
*
* Note the array is returned from function call
* because we want to have getColor able to be called statically
* so we can’t have instance variables to store the array
* @return array
*/
function colorList() {
return array(
‘black’ => array(0, 0, 0)
,’green’ => array(0, 128, 0)
// the rest of the colors ...
,’aqua’ => array(0, 255, 255)
);
}
/**
* Factory method to return a Color
* @param string $color_name the name of the desired color
* @return Color
*/
function &getColor($color_name) {
$color_name = strtolower($color_name);
if (array_key_exists($color_name,
$colors = CrayonBox::colorList())) {
$color = $colors[$color_name];
return new Color($color[0], $color[1], $color[2]);
}
trigger_error(“No color ‘$color_name’ available”);
// default to black
return new Color;
}