PHPDeveloper.org http://www.phpdeveloper.org Up-to-the Minute PHP News, views and community en-us Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:10:21 -0600 30 <![CDATA[Harry Roberts' Blog: Flexible PHP Interfaces]]> http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/10392 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/10392 In an effort to breathe as much life into an old bit of software he was having to update, Harry Roberts worked up a list of things that he sees can make things a bit more "programmer friendly" when it comes to using classes, methods and interfaces in your code.

His list of four is:

  • Doc Comments
  • Flexible Parameters
  • Use method Entry contracts
  • Be Stateful and Refactor

The "Doc Comments" is pretty obvious, but some of the others need a bit more explaining. Being flexible with your parameters is more about requiring the least from a developer, "entry contracts" being the restrictions to let the developer know what you're expecting and refactoring commonly used functionality into a easy, single point of contact.

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