Mastering PHP 7

Using __invoke()

The __invoke() magic method gets triggered when the object is being called as a function. The method accepts an optional number of parameters and is is able to return various types of data, or no data at all, as per the following synopsis:

mixed __invoke([ $... ])

If an object class implements the __invoke() method, we can call the method by specifying parentheses () right after the object's name. This type of object is known as a functor or function object.

The Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functor) provides more information on the functor.

The following block of code illustrates the simple __invoke() implementation:

<?phpclass User{  public function __invoke($name, $age)  {    echo $name . ', ' . $age;  }