Prototype Design Pattern in PHP

In the Prototype Pattern we create one standard object for each class, and clone that object to create new instances.

In this example we have an abstract BookPrototype class, with two specific or concrete subclasses, PHPBookPrototype and SQLBookPrototype. To create a object using either PHPBookPrototype or SQLBookPrototype we call the clone method.

<?php

abstract class BookPrototype {
    protected $title;
    protected $topic;
    abstract function __clone();
    function getTitle() {
        return $this->title;
    }
    function setTitle($titleIn) {
        $this->title = $titleIn;
    }
    function getTopic() {
        return $this->topic;
    }
}

class PHPBookPrototype extends BookPrototype {
    function __construct() {
        $this->topic = 'PHP';
    }
    function __clone() {
    }
}

class SQLBookPrototype extends BookPrototype {
    function __construct() {
        $this->topic = 'SQL';
    }
    function __clone() {
    }
}
 
  writeln('BEGIN TESTING PROTOTYPE PATTERN');
  writeln('');

  $phpProto = new PHPBookPrototype();
  $sqlProto = new SQLBookPrototype();

  $book1 = clone $sqlProto;
  $book1->setTitle('SQL For Cats');
  writeln('Book 1 topic: '.$book1->getTopic());
  writeln('Book 1 title: '.$book1->getTitle());
  writeln('');

  $book2 = clone $phpProto;
  $book2->setTitle('OReilly Learning PHP 5');
  writeln('Book 2 topic: '.$book2->getTopic());
  writeln('Book 2 title: '.$book2->getTitle());
  writeln('');

  $book3 = clone $sqlProto;
  $book3->setTitle('OReilly Learning SQL');
  writeln('Book 3 topic: '.$book3->getTopic());
  writeln('Book 3 title: '.$book3->getTitle());
  writeln('');

  writeln('END TESTING PROTOTYPE PATTERN');

  function writeln($line_in) {
    echo $line_in."<br/>";
  }

?>

Output

BEGIN TESTING PROTOTYPE PATTERN

Book 1 topic: SQL
Book 1 title: SQL For Cats

Book 2 topic: PHP
Book 2 title: OReilly Learning PHP 5

Book 3 topic: SQL
Book 3 title: OReilly Learning SQL

END TESTING PROTOTYPE PATTERN

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