In the flyweight pattern instances of a class which are identical are shared in an implementation instead of creating a new instance of that class for every instance.
This is done largely to assist performance, and works best when a large number of the exact same instance of a class would otherwise be created.
In this example, the FlyweightBook class stores only author and title, with only three possible author title combinations being used by the system, and yet the system may have a large number of duplicate books.
FlyweightFactory is in charge of distributing instances of FlyweightBook, and only creates a new instance when necessary.
. PHP Design Patterns . PHP Design Patterns Flyweight
PHP Design Patterns Flyweight
About the Flyweight
FlyweightBook.php
//copyright Lawrence Truett and FluffyCat.com 2006, all rights reserved
class FlyweightBook {
private $author;
private $title;
function __construct($author_in, $title_in) {
$this->author = $author_in;
$this->title = $title_in;
}
function getAuthor() {
return $this->author;
}
function getTitle() {
return $this->title;
}
}
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FlyweightFactory.php
//copyright Lawrence Truett and FluffyCat.com 2006, all rights reserved
include_once('FlyweightBook.php');
class FlyweightFactory {
private $books = array();
function __construct() {
$this->books[1] = NULL;
$this->books[2] = NULL;
$this->books[3] = NULL;
}
function getBook($bookKey) {
if (NULL == $this->books[$bookKey]) {
$makeFunction = 'makeBook'.$bookKey;
$this->books[$bookKey] = $this->$makeFunction();
}
return $this->books[$bookKey];
}
//Sort of an long way to do this, but hopefully easy to follow.
//How you really want to make flyweights would depend on what
//your application needs. This, while a little clumbsy looking,
//does work well.
function makeBook1() {
$book = new FlyweightBook('Larry Truett','PHP For Cats');
return $book;
}
function makeBook2() {
$book = new FlyweightBook('Larry Truett','PHP For Dogs');
return $book;
}
function makeBook3() {
$book = new FlyweightBook('Larry Truett','PHP For Parakeets');
return $book;
}
}
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FlyweightBookShelf.php
//copyright Lawrence Truett and FluffyCat.com 2006, all rights reserved
include_once('FlyweightBook.php');;
class FlyweightBookShelf {
private $books = array();
function addBook($book) {
$this->books[] = $book;
}
function showBooks() {
$return_string = NULL;
foreach ($this->books as $book) {
$return_string .= 'title: '.$book->getAuthor().
' author: '.$book->getTitle().'
';
};
return $return_string;
}
}
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testFlyweight.php
//copyright Lawrence Truett and FluffyCat.com 2006, all rights reserved
include_once('FlyweightBook.php');
include_once('FlyweightBookShelf.php');
include_once('FlyweightFactory.php');
define('BR', '<'.'BR'.'>');
echo 'BEGIN TESTING FLYWEIGHT PATTERN'.BR;
echo BR;
$flyweightFactory = new FlyweightFactory();
$flyweightBookShelf1 = new FlyweightBookShelf();
$flyweightBook1 = $flyweightFactory->getBook(1);
$flyweightBookShelf1->addBook($flyweightBook1);
$flyweightBook2 = $flyweightFactory->getBook(1);
$flyweightBookShelf1->addBook($flyweightBook2);
echo 'test 1 - show the two books are the same book'.BR;
if ($flyweightBook1 === $flyweightBook2) {
echo '1 and 2 are the same';
} else {
echo '1 and 2 are not the same';
}
echo BR.BR;
echo 'test 2 - with one book on one self twice'.BR;
echo $flyweightBookShelf1->showBooks();
echo BR;
$flyweightBookShelf2 = new FlyweightBookShelf();
$flyweightBook1 = $flyweightFactory->getBook(2);
$flyweightBookShelf2->addBook($flyweightBook1);
$flyweightBookShelf1->addBook($flyweightBook1);
echo 'test 3 - book shelf one'.BR;
echo $flyweightBookShelf1->showBooks();
echo BR;
echo 'test 3 - book shelf two'.BR;
echo $flyweightBookShelf2->showBooks();
echo BR.BR;
echo 'END TESTING FLYWEIGHT PATTERN'.BR;
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output of testFlyweight.php
BEGIN TESTING FLYWEIGHT PATTERN
test 1 - show the two books are the same book 1 and 2 are the same
test 2 - with one book on one self twice title: Larry Truett author: PHP For Cats title: Larry Truett author: PHP For Cats
test 3 - book shelf one title: Larry Truett author: PHP For Cats title: Larry Truett author: PHP For Cats title: Larry Truett author: PHP For Dogs
test 3 - book shelf two title: Larry Truett author: PHP For Dogs
END TESTING FLYWEIGHT PATTERN
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