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DTO vs VO in PHP

Maico Orazio on February 10, 2024

Data Transfer Objects (DTOs) and Value Objects (VOs) are particularly useful when working with dynamically typed languages like PHP, where switchin...
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Christian Galliano •

omg dude why are you checking things like this

match (true) {
      ($this->amount <= 0) => throw new InvalidPriceAmountException('amount is negative'),
      default => true
};
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this is crazy 😭 just use if

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Martin • • Edited

The answer is in the article's title image. It's tidier / more concise, when extend by additional conditions.
Stacked if/else clauses are ugly to look at. And though, here, it's only one condition, the author obviously prefers to use one style always. As I would.

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Hélio oliveira •

VO example?

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Serhii Klochko •

I asked GPT for that:

gist.github.com/graceman9/4335154c...

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danp •

This is not a VO, at all.

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Serhii Klochko •

Yes, you are right! But I did some research and I think I finally got the concept of VO. If someone interested I think this is a good explanation:
dev.to/ianrodrigues/writing-value-...