Design Patterns in PHP and Laravel

© Kelt Dockins 2017

Kelt Dockins, Design Patterns in PHP and Laravel, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2451-9_10

10. Bridge

Kelt Dockins¹ 

(1)Dolph, Arkansas, USA

$> git checkout bridge

Intent

Decouple an abstraction from its implementation so that the two can vary independently.¹

Applications

What does it mean to decouple an abstractionfrom its implementation? To show an example of this, let’s imagine that you want to send a message. A message is an abstraction. However, there are many different ways you can send a message. You can e-mail it; send it as a letter in the mail; speak it out loud from the rooftops; post it to Facebook, Twitter, or some other web site; put it in a bottle and drop it in the ocean; or fly a banner behind an airplane. Heck, there is even ...