Aspects, Filters, and Signals, Oh, My!
Jan 10, 2011 oop, php, Zend Framework
Last month, during PHP Advent,
gwoo wrote an interesting post on
Aspect-Oriented Design, or Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) as it is more
commonly known. The article got me to thinking, and revisiting what I know about
AOP, Intercepting Filters, and Signal Slots — in particular, what use cases I
see for them, what the state of current PHP offerings are, and where the future
may lie.
But first, some background is probably in order, as this is a jargon-heavy post.
A Primer for PHP 5.3′s New Language Features
Apr 6, 2010 oop, php, Zend Framework
For the past month, I’ve been immersed in PHP 5.3 as I and my team have
started work on Zend Framework 2.0.
PHP 5.3 offers a slew of new language features, many of which were developed
to assist framework and library developers. Most of the time, these features
are straight-forward, and you can simply use them; in other cases, however,
we’ve run into behaviors that were unexpected. This post will detail several
of these, so you either don’t run into the same issues — or can
capitalize on some of our discoveries.
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