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PHP Objects, Patterns, and Practice, Second Edition
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PHP Objects, Patterns, and Practice, Second Edition

by Matt Zandstra
December 2007
Intermediate to advanced
511 pages
13h 10m
English
Apress
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CHAPTER 11Performing and Representing Tasks

In this chapter, we get active. We look at patterns that help us to get things done, whether interpreting a minilanguage or encapsulating an algorithm.

This chapter will cover

  • The Interpreter pattern: Building a minilanguage interpreter that can be used to create scriptable applications
  • The Strategy pattern: Identifying algorithms in a system and encapsulating them into their own types
  • The Observer pattern: Creating hooks for alerting disparate objects about system events
  • The Visitor pattern: Applying an operation to all the nodes in a tree of objects
  • The Command pattern: Creating command objects that can be saved and passed around

The Interpreter Pattern

Languages are written in other languages ...

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