Strategy in PHP [Design pattern with examples]
I have been coding (seriously) for almost 10 years now,
Like everyone, as soon as I started to make my first little projects work I thought I was already amazing.
What a natural talent!
Only a while later I realized that the career of a web developer is composite by several milestones.
From your first "Hello World" to learning a framework and getting your head around the MVC principles.
Reaching these milestones let you say: "Today I have improved my skills".
One of these milestones that defined a programmer as a better programmer than before was when he finally understand the concept of composition.
you see,
In Object-oriented Programming 101, you learn the advantages of inheritance.
but what they do not tell you is that this practice is not very scalable and there is a better way to write your code.
It is incredibly crucial to develop a project and be confident that you WON'T CRY when you need to update it a few months from now.
for this reason:
In this week's article, you are going to discover why Composition is so important and how to use it while implementing the Strategy design pattern.
