Iterators
The Iterator design pattern is where an iterator is used to traverse a container. In PHP, a class is traversable using the foreach
construct if it ultimately inherits the Traversable interface. Unfortunately, this is an abstract base interface, you can't implement it alone (unless you're writing in the PHP core itself). Instead, you must instead implement interfaces called Iterator
or IteratorAggregate
. By implementing either of these interfaces you make a class iterable and traversable using foreach
.
Iterator
and IteratorAggregate
interfaces are very similar, except the IteratorAggregate
interface creates an external iterator. IteratorAggregate
as an interface only requires outlines one method, getIterator
. This method has to return ...
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