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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

Anonymous classes


Just like anonymous functions, now there anonymous classes in PHP. Note that if an object is required, then most probably we need some specific type of object and not just a random one, for example:

<?php
class App
{
    public function __construct()
    {
        //some code here
    }
}

function useApp(App $app)
{
    //use app somewhere
}

$app = new App();
useApp($app);

Note that a specific type of object was required in the useApp() function, and this type App couldn't be defined if it wasn't a class. So, where and why would we use an anonymous class with some specific functionality in it? We may need it in case we need to pass a class implementing some specific interface or extending some parent class, but only want to have this class used in one place. In that case, we can use an anonymous class. Here is the same example given in the PHP7 documentation so that it will be easy for you to follow up:

<?php
interface Logger {
    public function log(string $msg...
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