Hi all,
Have a question and wandering how some of you, or what would be the best practice for this implementation.
I have three objects
Company
Categories
Product
Each of these objects are standalone objects, but at times, the three could be combined to create a complete product.
One way is:
categories extends company
product extends categories
THis will work, but this extended object just seems like over and it is not something I need. I wish something in php would allow me to creare a parent like this
class productComplete extends product, categories, company {}
But since php does not allow this, how would you design something like this? What is best implementation?
Combining Objects Question
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Re: Combining Objects Question
You would probably be better off using composition. Inheritance has its place, but generally try to composite first.
If you have one to may relationships they you can pass in an array or have an add() method to append to the list.
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class categories {
protected $company;
public function __construct($company) {
$this->company = $company;
}
}
class product {
protected $category;
public function __construct($category) {
$this->category = $category;
}
}(#10850)