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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

Interfaces


An interface is an OOP element that groups a set of function declarations without implementing them, that is, it specifies the name, return type, and arguments, but not the block of code. Interfaces are different from abstract classes, since they cannot contain any implementation at all, whereas abstract classes could mix both method definitions and implemented ones. The purpose of interfaces is to state what a class can do, but not how it is done.

From our code, we can identify a potential usage of interfaces. Customers have an expected behavior, but its implementation changes depending on the type of customer. So, Customer could be an interface instead of an abstract class. But as an interface cannot implement any function, nor can it contain properties, we will have to move the concrete code from the Customer class to somewhere else. For now, let's move it up to the Person class. Edit the Person class as shown:

<?php

namespace Bookstore\Domain;

class Person {

    private...
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