Pro PHP MVC

CHAPTER 19

Extending

One of the biggest differentiators of popular frameworks is how easily they can be extended with third-party libraries. Up until now, all the classes we have developed have belonged either to the framework or to the application.

Goals

• We need to understand how we can create our own libraries.
• We need to understand how we can use libraries from other developers.
• We need to understand what the Observer design pattern is and why it’s relevant to our application.
• We need to build a means of listening for and emitting events within our applications.

Foxy

The first kind of library we will look at is the kind we create ourselves. ...