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Design Patterns: The Simple Factory Pattern
Jan 27, 2015 @ 17:53:20

NetTuts.com has posted the next part of their series focusing on design patterns (and more specifically implementing them in PHP). In this latest post they look at a simple version of the Factory design pattern.

When you think of a factory, what comes to mind? For me, it's a place where things are created - that is, it's a centralized placed where things are produced. Later, the delivery of said products are done by the factory based on an order. Let's say that you're requesting a car. A factory will create one based on the specifications of the work order and will then deliver it once it's complete. Just as their real world counterparts, a software factory (that is, software that implements the factory design pattern), is an object that is responsible for creating and delivering other objects based on incoming parameters.

They mention the three different versions of the factory pattern but focus in on the simplest one (hence the "simple" in the title). They continue on with the car example, showing how to use a simple factory (a "carFactory") to build an instance of the "Car" class based on different classes of car types. The object is constructed when a "build" method is called with the type.

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Link: http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/design-patterns-the-simple-factory-pattern--cms-22345


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