Class test{
function test1()
{
echo 'inside test1';
}
function test2()
{
echo 'test2';
}
function test3()
{
echo 'test3';
}
}
$obj = new test;
$obj->test2();//prints test2
$obj->test3();//prints test3
Now my question is,
How can i call another function before any called function execution?
In above case, how can i auto call 'test1' function for every another function call,
so that i can get the output as,
test1
test2
test1
test3
currently i am getting output as
test2
test3
I cannot call 'test1' function in
every function definition as there may
be many functions. I need a way to
auto call a function before calling
any function of a class.
Any alternative way would also be do.
Your best bet is the magic method __call, see below for example:
<?php
class test {
function __construct(){}
private function test1(){
echo "In test1", PHP_EOL;
}
private function test2(){
echo "test2", PHP_EOL;
}
protected function test3(){
return "test3" . PHP_EOL;
}
public function __call($method,$arguments) {
if(method_exists($this, $method)) {
$this->test1();
return call_user_func_array(array($this,$method),$arguments);
}
}
}
$a = new test;
$a->test2();
echo $a->test3();
/*
* Output:
* In test1
* test2
* In test1
* test3
*/
Please notice that test2 and test3 are not visible in the context where they are called due to protected and private. If the methods are public the above example will fail.
test1 does not have to be declared private.
ideone.com example can be found here
Updated: Add link to ideone, add example with return value.
All previous attempts are basically flawed because of http://ocramius.github.io/presentations/proxy-pattern-in-php/#/71
Here's the simple example, taken from my slides:
class BankAccount { /* ... */ }
And here's our "poor" interceptor logic:
class PoorProxy {
public function __construct($wrapped) {
$this->wrapped = $wrapped;
}
public function __call($method, $args) {
return call_user_func_array(
$this->wrapped,
$args
);
}
}
Now if we have the following method to be called:
function pay(BankAccount $account) { /* ... */ }
Then this won't work:
$account = new PoorProxy(new BankAccount());
pay($account); // KABOOM!
This applies to all solutions that suggest implementing a "proxy".
Solutions suggesting explicit usage of other methods that then call your internal API are flawed, because they force you to change your public API to change an internal behavior, and they reduce type safety.
The solution provided by Kristoffer doesn't account for public methods, which is also a problem, as you can't rewrite your API to make it all private or protected.
Here is a solution that does solve this problem partially:
class BankAccountProxy extends BankAccount {
public function __construct($wrapped) {
$this->wrapped = $wrapped;
}
public function doThings() { // inherited public method
$this->doOtherThingsOnMethodCall();
return $this->wrapped->doThings();
}
private function doOtherThingsOnMethodCall() { /**/ }
}
Here is how you use it:
$account = new BankAccountProxy(new BankAccount());
pay($account); // WORKS!
This is a type-safe, clean solution, but it involves a lot of coding, so please take it only as an example.
Writing this boilerplate code is NOT fun, so you may want to use different approaches.
To give you an idea of how complicated this category of problems is, I can just tell you that I wrote an entire library to solve them, and some smarter, wiser, older people even went and invented an entirely different paradigm, called "Aspect Oriented Programming" (AOP).
Therefore I suggest you to look into these 3 solutions that I think may be able to solve your problem in a much cleaner way:
Use ProxyManager's "access interceptor", which is basically a proxy type that allows you to run a closure when other methods are called (example). Here is an example on how to proxy ALL calls to an $object's public API:
use ProxyManager\Factory\AccessInterceptorValueHolderFactory;
function build_wrapper($object, callable $callOnMethod) {
return (new AccessInterceptorValueHolderFactory)
->createProxy(
$object,
array_map(
function () use ($callOnMethod) {
return $callOnMethod;
},
(new ReflectionClass($object))
->getMethods(ReflectionMethod::IS_PUBLIC)
)
);
}
then just use build_wrapper as you like.
Use GO-AOP-PHP, which is an actual AOP library, completely written in PHP, but will apply this sort of logic to ALL instances of classes for which you define point cuts. This may or may not be what you want, and if your $callOnMethod should be applied only for particular instances, then AOP is not what you are looking for.
Use the PHP AOP Extension, which I don't believe to be a good solution, mainly because GO-AOP-PHP solves this problem in a more elegant/debuggable way, and because extensions in PHP are inherently a mess (that is to be attributed to PHP internals, not to the extension developers).
Additionally, by using an extension, you are making your application as un-portable as possible (try convincing a sysadmin to install a compiled version of PHP, if you dare), and you can't use your app on cool new engines such as HHVM.
Maybe it is a little bit outdated but here come my 2 cents...
I don't think that giving access to private methods via __call() is a good idea. If you have a method that you really don't want to be called outside of your object you have no way to avoid it happening.
I think that one more elegant solution should be creating some kind of universal proxy/decorator and using __call() inside it. Let me show how:
class Proxy
{
private $proxifiedClass;
function __construct($proxifiedClass)
{
$this->proxifiedClass = $proxifiedClass;
}
public function __call($methodName, $arguments)
{
if (is_callable(
array($this->proxifiedClass, $methodName)))
{
doSomethingBeforeCall();
call_user_func(array($this->proxifiedClass, $methodName), $arguments);
doSomethingAfterCall();
}
else
{
$class = get_class($this->proxifiedClass);
throw new \BadMethodCallException("No callable method $methodName at $class class");
}
}
private function doSomethingBeforeCall()
{
echo 'Before call';
//code here
}
private function doSomethingAfterCall()
{
echo 'After call';
//code here
}
}
Now a simply test class:
class Test
{
public function methodOne()
{
echo 'Method one';
}
public function methodTwo()
{
echo 'Method two';
}
private function methodThree()
{
echo 'Method three';
}
}
And all you need to do now is:
$obj = new Proxy(new Test());
$obj->methodOne();
$obj->methodTwo();
$obj->methodThree(); // This will fail, methodThree is private
Advantages:
1)You just need one proxy class and it will work with all your objects.
2)You won't disrespect accessibility rules.
3)You don't need to change the proxified objects.
Disadvantage: You will lose the inferface/contract after wrapping the original object. If you use Type hinting with frequence maybe it is a problem.
Perhaps the best way so far is to create your own method caller and wrap around whatever you need before and after the method:
class MyClass {
public function callMethod()
{
$args = func_get_args();
if (count($args) == 0) {
echo __FUNCTION__ . ': No method specified!' . PHP_EOL . PHP_EOL;;
} else {
$method = array_shift($args); // first argument is the method name and we won't need to pass it further
if (method_exists($this, $method)) {
echo __FUNCTION__ . ': I will execute this line and then call ' . __CLASS__ . '->' . $method . '()' . PHP_EOL;
call_user_func_array([$this, $method], $args);
echo __FUNCTION__ . ": I'm done with " . __CLASS__ . '->' . $method . '() and now I execute this line ' . PHP_EOL . PHP_EOL;
} else
echo __FUNCTION__ . ': Method ' . __CLASS__ . '->' . $method . '() does not exist' . PHP_EOL . PHP_EOL;
}
}
public function functionAA()
{
echo __FUNCTION__ . ": I've been called" . PHP_EOL;
}
public function functionBB($a, $b, $c)
{
echo __FUNCTION__ . ": I've been called with these arguments (" . $a . ', ' . $b . ', ' . $c . ')' . PHP_EOL;
}
}
$myClass = new MyClass();
$myClass->callMethod('functionAA');
$myClass->callMethod('functionBB', 1, 2, 3);
$myClass->callMethod('functionCC');
$myClass->callMethod();
And here's the output:
callMethod: I will execute this line and then call MyClass->functionAA()
functionAA: I've been called
callMethod: I'm done with MyClass->functionAA() and now I execute this line
callMethod: I will execute this line and then call MyClass->functionBB()
functionBB: I've been called with these arguments (1, 2, 3)
callMethod: I'm done with MyClass->functionBB() and now I execute this line
callMethod: Method MyClass->functionCC() does not exist
callMethod: No method specified!
You can even go further and create a whitelist of methods but I leave it like this for the sake of a more simple example.
You will no longer be forced to make the methods private and use them via __call().
I'm assuming that there might be situations where you will want to call the methods without the wrapper or you would like your IDE to still autocomplete the methods which will most probably not happen if you declare the methods as private.
<?php
class test
{
public function __call($name, $arguments)
{
$this->test1(); // Call from here
return call_user_func_array(array($this, $name), $arguments);
}
// methods here...
}
?>
Try adding this method overriding in the class...
If you are really, really brave, you can make it with runkit extension. (http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.runkit.php). You can play with runkit_method_redefine (you can need Reflection also to retrieve method definition) or maybe combination runkit_method_rename (old function) / runkit_method_add (new function which wraps calls to your test1 function and an old function )
The only way to do this is using the magic __call. You need to make all methods private so they are not accessable from the outside. Then define the __call method to handle the method calls. In __call you then can execute whatever function you want before calling the function that was intentionally called.
Lets have a go at this one :
class test
{
function __construct()
{
}
private function test1()
{
echo "In test1";
}
private function test2()
{
echo "test2";
}
private function test3()
{
echo "test3";
}
function CallMethodsAfterOne($methods = array())
{
//Calls the private method internally
foreach($methods as $method => $arguments)
{
$this->test1();
$arguments = $arguments ? $arguments : array(); //Check
call_user_func_array(array($this,$method),$arguments);
}
}
}
$test = new test;
$test->CallMethodsAfterOne('test2','test3','test4' => array('first_param'));
Thats what I would do
How is it possible to output methods in classes?
class Test {
function wee($param1, $param2){
return $param1.$param2;
}
}
I want to output the method wee and all its content.. I also need to know the names and how many parameters the method requires
Use ReflectionClass
$class = new ReflectionClass('Test');
$methods = $class->getMethods();
$parameters = $class->getMethod('wee')->getParameters();
var_dump($methods);
var_dump($parameters);
or a more stylized output
echo "<pre>";
$class = new ReflectionClass('Test');
$methods = $class->getMethods();
foreach($methods as $name){
echo $name;
}
echo "</pre>";
My concept is very poor in oop for php. My class has a constructor with three parameters.i create a object and pass three values to the constructor. Now, how will i show constructor value.
class Foo {
public function __constructor($para1, $para2, $para3 ){
echo $para1 . '<br>';
echo $para2 . '<br>';
echo $para3 . '<br>';
}
}
$f = Foo(10,20,30);
I am not sure if the term "Wildcard" can explain my point, but sometimes in some ready scripts we are able to call a non defined function like find_by_age(23) where age can be anything else that's mapped to a database table record. So i can call find_by_name, find_by_email, find_by_id and so on. So how can we do such thing either in procedural or object oriented ways ?
The term you are looking for is magic method.
Basically like this:
class Foo {
public function __call($method,$args) {
echo "You were looking for the method $method.\n";
}
}
$foo = new Foo();
$foo->bar(); // prints "You were looking for the method bar."
For what you are looking for, you just filter out bad function calls and redirect good ones:
class Model {
public function find_by_field_name($field,$value) { ... }
public function __call($method,$args) {
if (substr($method,0,8) === 'find_by_') {
$fn = array($this,'find_by_field_name');
$arguments = array_merge(array(substr($method,8)),$args);
return call_user_func_array($fn,$arguments);
} else {
throw new Exception("Method not found");
}
}
}
You can use them by defining a __call magic method in your class, you can use them only in classes. on global scope
Quoting from PHP Manual:
<?php
class MethodTest {
public function __call($name, $arguments) {
// Note: value of $name is case sensitive.
echo "Calling object method '$name' "
. implode(', ', $arguments). "\n";
}
/** As of PHP 5.3.0 */
public static function __callStatic($name, $arguments) {
// Note: value of $name is case sensitive.
echo "Calling static method '$name' "
. implode(', ', $arguments). "\n";
}
}
$obj = new MethodTest;
$obj->runTest('in object context');
MethodTest::runTest('in static context'); // As of PHP 5.3.0
?>
The above example will output:
Calling object method 'runTest' in object context
Calling static method 'runTest' in static context
For a procedural solution you can simply use string concatenation to get the job done. You can also fancy things up a bit by calling it an implementation of the strategy pattern.
<?php
/**
* Employ a find by name strategy
*/
function find_by_name($name)
{
echo "You are searching for users with the name $name";
return array();
}
/**
* Employ a find by age strategy
*/
function find_by_age($age)
{
echo "You are searching for users who are $age years old";
return array();
}
/**
* Find users by using a particular strategy
*/
function find_using_strategy($strategy='age', $parameter)
{
$results = array();
$search_function = 'find_by_' . $search_field;
if (function_exists($search_function)) {
$results = $search_function($parameter);
}
return $results;
}
$users = find_using_strategy('name', 'Matthew Purdon');
var_dump($users);
Unfortunately I cannot provide any code examples, however I will try and create an example.
My question is about Objects and memory allocation in PHP.
If I have an object, lets say:
$object = new Class();
Then I do something like
$object2 = $object;
What is this actualy doing? I know there is a clone function, but thats not what I'm asking about, I'm concerned about whether this is creating another identical object, or if its just assigning a reference to $object.
I strongly understand this to mean that it just creates a reference, but in some case usages of mine, I find that I get another $object created, and I can't understand why.
If you use the magic method __invoke, you can call an object similar to a function, and it will call that magic method.
class Object{
function __invoke(){ return "hi"; }
}
$object = new Object;
$object2 = $object();
echo $object2; // echos hi
That means that $object2 is equal to whatever that function returns.
Basically, you are calling a function, but using a variable as it's name. So:
function test(){ echo "hi"; }
$function_name = "test";
$function_name(); // echos hi.
In this case, you are just calling an object instead.
So, in reference to your question, this is actually not 'cloning' at all, unless the __invoke() function looks like this:
function __invoke(){ return this }
In which case, it would be a reference to the same class.
You are creating a second reference of the same object. Here is a proof:
<?php
class TestClass {
private $number;
function __construct($num) { $this->number = $num; }
function increment() { $this->number++; }
function __toString() { return (string) $this->number; }
}
$original = new TestClass(10);
echo "Testing =\n";
echo "--------------------------------\n";
echo '$equal = $original;' . "\n";
$equal = $original;
echo '$equal = ' . $equal . ";\n";
echo '$original->increment();' . "\n";
$original->increment();
echo '$equal = ' . $equal . ";\n";
echo "\n";
echo "Testing clone\n";
echo "--------------------------------\n";
echo '$clone = clone $original;' . "\n";
$clone = clone $original;
echo '$clone = ' . $clone . ";\n";
echo '$original->increment();' . "\n";
$original->increment();
echo '$clone = ' . $clone . ";\n";
Use clone if you want to create a copy of an instance.
Assuming that you mean
$object2 = $object;
And not
$object2 = $object();
PHP will create a reference to the original object, it will not copy it. See http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.basic.php, the section called
Object Assignment.
<?php
class Object{
public $value = 1;
public function inc(){
$this->value++;
}
}
$object = new Object;
$object2 = $object;
$object->inc();
echo $object2->value; // echos 2, proving it's by reference