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Mastering PHP Design Patterns
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Mastering PHP Design Patterns

by Junade Ali
September 2016
Intermediate to advanced
270 pages
5h 16m
English
Packt Publishing
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God objects

God objects are a tempting consequence of bad software design and also badly implemented object orientation.

Essentially, a God object is an object with either too many methods or too many properties; essentially, it's a class that knows too much or does too much. The God object soon becomes tightly coupled to (referenced by) lots of other bits of code in the application.

So what's actually wrong with this? Well, in short, when you have one bit of code tied into every single other bit of code, you quickly find a maintenance disaster. If you adjust the logic for a method in a God object for one use case, you might find it having unintended consequences for another element.

In computer science, it is often a good idea to adopt a divide ...

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