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PHP Design Patterns Strategy

About the Strategy

In the Strategy Pattern a context will choose the appropriate concrete extension of a class interface.

In this example, the StrategyContext class will set a strategy of StrategyCaps, StrategyExclaim, or StrategyStars depending on a paramter StrategyContext receives at instantiation. When the showName() method is called in StrategyContext it will call the showName() method in the Strategy that it set.

StrategyContext.php

//copyright Lawrence Truett and FluffyCat.com 2006, all rights reserved
  
  include_once('StrategyCaps.php');
  include_once('StrategyExclaim.php');
  include_once('StrategyStars.php');  


  class StrategyContext {
      
    private $strategy = NULL; 
    
    //bookList is not instantiated at construct time
    public function __construct($strategy_ind_id) {
      switch ($strategy_ind_id) {
        case "C": 
          $this->strategy = new StrategyCaps();
          break;
        case "E": 
          $this->strategy = new StrategyExclaim();
          break;
        case "S": 
          $this->strategy = new StrategyStars();
          break;
      }
    }


    public function showBookTitle($book) {
      return $this->strategy->showTitle($book);
    }


  }

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StrategyInterface.php

//copyright Lawrence Truett and FluffyCat.com 2006, all rights reserved


  interface StrategyInterface {
      
    public function showTitle($book_in);


  }

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StrategyCaps.php

//copyright Lawrence Truett and FluffyCat.com 2006, all rights reserved
  
  include_once('Book.php');
  include_once('StrategyInterface.php');
  
  class StrategyCaps implements StrategyInterface {
    
    public function showTitle($book_in) {
      $title = $book_in->getTitle();
      $this->titleCount++;
      return strtoupper ($title);
    }
  }

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StrategyExclaim.php

//copyright Lawrence Truett and FluffyCat.com 2006, all rights reserved


  include_once('Book.php');
  include_once('StrategyInterface.php');
  
  class StrategyExclaim implements StrategyInterface {
    
    public function showTitle($book_in) {
      $title = $book_in->getTitle();
      $this->titleCount++;
      return Str_replace(' ','!',$title);
    }
  }

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StrategyStars.php

//copyright Lawrence Truett and FluffyCat.com 2006, all rights reserved


  include_once('Book.php');
  include_once('StrategyInterface.php');  
  
  class StrategyStars implements StrategyInterface {
    
    public function showTitle($book_in) {
      $title = $book_in->getTitle();
      $this->titleCount++;
      return Str_replace(' ','*',$title);
    }
  }

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Book.php

//copyright Lawrence Truett and FluffyCat.com 2005, all rights reserved
  
  class Book {


    private $author;
    private $title;


    function __construct($title_in, $author_in) {
      $this->author = $author_in;
      $this->title  = $title_in;
    }


    function getAuthor() {return $this->author;}


    function getTitle() {return $this->title;}


    function getAuthorAndTitle() {
      return $this->getTitle() . ' by ' . $this->getAuthor();
    }


  }

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testStrategy.php

//copyright Lawrence Truett and FluffyCat.com 2006, all rights reserved


  include_once('Book.php');
  include_once('StrategyContext.php');


  define('BR', '<'.'BR'.'>');


  echo 'BEGIN TESTING STRATEGY PATTERN'.BR;
  echo BR;
  
  $book = new Book('PHP for Cats','Larry Truett');
  
  $strategyContextC = new StrategyContext('C');
  $strategyContextE = new StrategyContext('E');
  $strategyContextS = new StrategyContext('S');
  
  echo 'test 1 - show name context C'.BR;
  echo $strategyContextC->showBookTitle($book);
  echo BR.BR;


  echo 'test 2 - show name context E'.BR;
  echo $strategyContextE->showBookTitle($book);
  echo BR.BR;
  
  echo 'test 3 - show name context S'.BR;
  echo $strategyContextS->showBookTitle($book);
  echo BR.BR;  


  echo 'END TESTING STRATEGY PATTERN'.BR;

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output of testStrategy.php

BEGIN TESTING STRATEGY PATTERN


test 1 - show name context C
PHP FOR CATS


test 2 - show name context E
PHP!for!Cats


test 3 - show name context S
PHP*for*Cats


END TESTING STRATEGY PATTERN

References

Design Patterns

Design Patterns by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides

PHP 5

The Official PHP web site
Core PHP Programming, 3rd Edition by Leon Atkinson and Zeev Suraski

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Comment by Larry Rate this Comment

This is the second pattern example I've done for PHP which is based on the same pattern I did for Java.

This example borrows heavily from Java Design Patterns Strategy.

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