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Facade Design Pattern in PHP

In the facade pattern a class hides a complex subsystem from a calling class. In turn, the complex subsystem will know nothing of the calling class.

In this example, the CaseReverseFacade class will call a subsystem to reverse the case of a string passed from the Book class. The subsystem is controlled by the reverseCase function in the CaseReverseFacade, which in turn calls functions in the ArrayCaseReverse and ArrayStringFunctions classes. As written, the CaseReverseFacade can reverse the case of any string, but it could easily be changed to only reverse a single element of a single class.

In my example I make all elements of the Facade and the subsystem static. This could also easily be changed.

<?php

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();
    }
}

class CaseReverseFacade {
    public static function reverseStringCase($stringIn) {
        $arrayFromString = ArrayStringFunctions::stringToArray($stringIn);
        $reversedCaseArray = ArrayCaseReverse::reverseCase($arrayFromString);
        $reversedCaseString = ArrayStringFunctions::arrayToString($reversedCaseArray);
        return $reversedCaseString;
    }
}

class ArrayCaseReverse {
    private static $uppercase_array = 
        array('A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F',
              'G', 'H', 'I', 'J', 'K', 'L',
              'M', 'N', 'O', 'P', 'Q', 'R',
              'S', 'T', 'U', 'V', 'W', 'X',
              'Y', 'Z');
    private static $lowercase_array = 
        array('a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f',
              'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l',
              'm', 'n', 'o', 'p', 'q', 'r',
              's', 't', 'u', 'v', 'w', 'x',
              'y', 'z');
    public static function reverseCase($arrayIn) {
        $array_out = array();
        for ($x = 0; $x < count($arrayIn); $x++) {
	     if (in_array($arrayIn[$x], self::$uppercase_array)) {
                 $key = array_search($arrayIn[$x], self::$uppercase_array);
		 $array_out[$x] = self::$lowercase_array[$key];
	     } elseif (in_array($arrayIn[$x], self::$lowercase_array)) {
                 $key = array_search($arrayIn[$x], self::$lowercase_array);
		 $array_out[$x] = self::$uppercase_array[$key];
             } else {
		 $array_out[$x] = $arrayIn[$x];
             }
        }
	return $array_out;
    }
}

class ArrayStringFunctions {
    public static function arrayToString($arrayIn) {
      $string_out = NULL;
	  foreach ($arrayIn as $oneChar) {
	    $string_out .= $oneChar;
	  }
	  return $string_out;
    }
    public static function stringToArray($stringIn) {
      return str_split($stringIn);
    }
}


  witeln('BEGIN TESTING FACADE PATTERN');
  witeln('');
 
  $book = new Book('Design Patterns', 'Gamma, Helm, Johnson, and Vlissides');

  witeln('Original book title: '.$book->getTitle());
  witeln('');

  $bookTitleReversed = CaseReverseFacade::reverseStringCase($book->getTitle());  
 
  writeln('Reversed book title: '.$bookTitleReversed);
  witeln('');

  writeln('END TESTING FACADE PATTERN');
 
  function writeln($line_in) {
    echo $line_in."&lt;br/&gt;";
  }

?>

Output

BEGIN TESTING FACADE PATTERN

Original book title: Design Patterns

Reversed book title: dESIGNpATTERNS

END TESTING FACADE PATTERN

Code examples

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