note 110962 added to functions.anonymous

I fell uncomfortable with php's way to pass callbacks ahead. It's just a personal opinion but i think the structure array($object, 'method') a little bit ugly. In some special cases i would like to do something more verbose, like that: <?php $sortedArray = ArrayServices::sort($arrayOfPerson, $sortPerson->byName); ?> Here, "$sortPerson->byName" is a pointer to a function that receives 2 instances of Person and return true if the name of the first is "bigger" than the second. "ArrayServices::sort" is a function that can sort any kind of array using different criterias, it uses the function passed on the second parameter to compare two items on the array I am able do that defining a simple abstract class which gives the ability to it's children to expose their methods as closures using __get() magic funtion. <?php abstract class ClosureExposerObject { public function __get($methodName) { if (is_callable( array($this, $methodName))) { return function() use ($methodName) { $args = func_get_args(); return call_user_func_array(array($this, $methodName), $args); }; } else { $className = get_class($this); throw new \BadMethodCallException("$method is not a callable at $className class."); } } } ?> Now it is possible to define a class SortPerson so that i could use it like in the first code snippet. <?php class SortPerson extends ClosureExposerObject { public function byName(Person p1, Person p2) { return p1->getName() > p2->getName(); } public function byAge(Person p1, Person p2) { return p1->getAge() > p2->getAge(); } public function bySurName(Person p1, Person p2) (...) } ?> I just needed to extend ClosureExposerObject and do nothing more. Some observations: SortPerson is a service class but i decided not to implement it with static methods. It is a personal matter but i really dont like to implement such small classes with statics. Also i have inverted some naming conventions (class names as substantives and methods as verbs) but in some very special cases i thing that it actually helps readability. ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.199 Probable Submitter: 186.235.110.83 ---- Manual Page -- http://php.net/manual/en/functions.anonymous.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/110962 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/110962/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/110962/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/110962/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/110962/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/110962/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/110962/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/110962 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/110962 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php