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Basic PHP Factory Pattern code review

I have an object, KbArticle, that originally in it's constructor, would try to return null if the SQL query that retrieves the data for its required properties came up with 0 rows. A friend told me ...
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What are the benefits of using a 'decorator factory' that decorates objects?

In a project I decided to implement the Decorator pattern. I have a class Thing with methodA(), and a class AbstractDecorator that inherits from Thing and that all decorators inherit from: ...
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Using a Simple/Static Factory vs. instantiating directly: new Thing() vs. factory.createThing() - what's the benefit?

Here are two ways to instantiate an object: Option 1: Thing thing = new Thing(); Option 2: (the factory is a Static Factory, but it could also be a Simple Factory). Thing thing = ...