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Building RESTful Web Services with PHP 7

You're reading from   Building RESTful Web Services with PHP 7 Lumen, Composer, API testing, Microservices, and more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787127746
Length 244 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. RESTful Web Services, Introduction and Motivation FREE CHAPTER 2. PHP7, To Code It Better 3. Creating RESTful Endpoints 4. Reviewing Design Flaws and Security Threats 5. Load and Resolve with Composer, an Evolutionary 6. Illuminating RESTful Web Services with Lumen 7. Improving RESTful Web Services 8. API Testing – Guards on the Gates 9. Microservices

Closure::call()


Binding an object scope with a closure is an efficient way to use a closure with different objects. At the same time, it is also a simple way to use different closures having different behaviors an object in different places. This is because it binds the object scope with a closure at runtime without inheritance, composition, and so on. However, previously we didn't have the Closure::call() method; we had something like this:

<?php
// Pre PHP 7 code
class Point{
    private $x = 1; 
    private $y = 2;
}

$getXFn = function() {return $this->x;};
$getX = $getXFn->bindTo(new Point, 'Point');//intermediate closure
echo $getX(); // will output 1

But now with Closure::call(), the same code can be written as follows:

<?php
//  PHP 7+ code
class Point{
    private $x = 1; 
    private $y = 2;
}

// PHP 7+ code
$getX = function() {return $this->x;};
echo $getX->call(new Point); // outputs 1 as doing same thing

Both code snippets perform the same action. However, PHP7...

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