Re: [PHP] A Good OOP Tutorial/Read?

Bastien Koert

On 2013-05-16, at 5:28 PM, Tedd Sperling <[email protected]> wrote:

> -Dan:
> 
> I teach this stuff and still don't fully understand the why/when for interfaces.
> 
> Even the guru's I talk with can't give me a good explanation as to what the advantages are in using them. I've done a lot of experimenting and can't see any advantage for them other than grouping different classes together and creating a new data-tytpe.
> 
> Other than that, from my perspective interfaces are mythicode.
> 
> So, if you find a good reference, please let me know.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> tedd
> 
> 
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Tedd,

The best argument I've seen for interfaces is to abstract calling classes to avoid binding to a particular framework. Phpmaster was where I saw that.

The idea was that by implementing an interface, the swapping out a framework was much simpler since the only code that needed to be written was more the interface adapter to the new framework

Bastien