PHPDeveloper.org http://www.phpdeveloper.org Up-to-the Minute PHP News, views and community en-us Fri, 24 May 2013 13:59:24 -0500 30 <![CDATA[Sebastian Bergmann's Blog: Fluent Interface in PHPUnit 3.0]]> http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4696 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4696 Sebastian Bergmann has posted this new item over on his blog that highlights some of the "fluent interface" structures that PHPUnit 3.0 will allow.

One topic that has made a few appearances (#1, #2, #3) in PHP-related blogs lately is that of Fluent Interfaces. A good example of a fluent interface is the API of jMock.

PHPUnit 3.0 provides the same fluent interface for configuring its Mock Objects (because PHPUnit's implementation of Mock Objects is a port of jMock).

He shows a code exmaple of how to get it all working, showing how to create a chain of methods that leads to more readable, "fluent" code...]]> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 07:07:48 -0600