Re: Object Aggregation

Right now you can use the PEAR_Autoloader or the the aggregation extension, but the latter will be removed, because it makes for messy designs. PHP 5 will require interfaces. Nevertheless, I am finishing a delegate implementation that would allow you to aggregate methods in PHP 5, so you may want to take a look at that when I'm finished. Delegates are just other objects that implement methods that another object owning the delegates can call as if they are its own. On 2 Nov 2003, at 7:22 PM, MFriedman@symcor.com wrote:

I know this isn't really a PEAR question, but I've tried the general list with little success, and the topic is relevant in that this is pretty much an oop question and this list is more or less the relevant list for that sort of thing. So, here goes... I'm just discovering how I can effectively emulate interfaces using the object aggregation extension. This is a major benefit to me so I'd like to know if others are using this extension. It is marked in the docs as experimental. Does that mean the api might change in PHP4? I'm guessing it won't - I do understand that this extension will be removed in PHP5 but I need this feature now so I'm looking to make use of it. Anyone have an opinion regarding how suitable this extension is in a production environment? I can guarantee that I'll be using at least PHP version 4.4.3 I think if there comes a time I need to port the application to php5, I'll be able to replace the aggregation with actual interfaces. Thoughts? Thanks, Matt. -- PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php