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Learning PHP 7

You're reading from   Learning PHP 7 Build powerful real-life web applications in a simple way using PHP7 and its ecosystem.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785880544
Length 414 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Antonio L Zapata (GBP) Antonio L Zapata (GBP)
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Preface 1. Setting Up the Environment 2. Web Applications with PHP FREE CHAPTER 3. Understanding PHP Basics 4. Creating Clean Code with OOP 5. Using Databases 6. Adapting to MVC 7. Testing Web Applications 8. Using Existing PHP Frameworks 9. Building REST APIs 10. Behavioral Testing Index

Traits


So far, you have learned that extending from classes allows you to inherit code (properties and method implementations), but it has the limitation of extending only from one class each time. On the other hand, you can use interfaces to implement multiple behaviors from the same class, but you cannot inherit code in this way. To fill this gap, that is, to be able to inherit code from multiple places, you have traits.

Traits are mechanisms that allow you to reuse code, "inheriting", or rather copy-pasting code, from multiple sources at the same time. Traits, as abstract classes or interfaces, cannot be instantiated; they are just containers of functionality that can be used from other classes.

If you remember, we have some code in the Person class that manages the assignment of IDs. This code is not really part of a person, but rather part of an ID system that could be used by some other entity that has to be identified with IDs too. One way to extract this functionality from Person...

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