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Design Patterns in PHP 8: Simple factory

Max Zhuk on July 29, 2023

Hello, fellow developers!🧑🏼‍💻 Today, we're going to delve into the Simple Factory pattern. This pattern, while not officially recognized as a form...
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Lars Moelleken • • Edited

Thanks for this post.

PS: we should try to prevent strings because we have much better support for symbols by the IDE + static code analysis

$factory->createTransport('truck')
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vs.

$factory->createTransport(Truck::class)
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+

/*
 * @param class-string<Transport>
 */
public function createTransport($type): Transport {
...
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Max Zhuk • • Edited

Thanks, I agree that the code will be better this way

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Dan Jones •

Types on all the methods. If you're doing PHP 8, all the arguments and returns should be typed.