method-chaining – Page 2

Method chaining – why is it a good practice, or not?

October 23, 2022 by Tarik

I agree that this is subjective. For the most part I avoid method chaining, but recently I also found a case where it was just the right thing – I had a method which accepted something like 10 parameters, and needed more, but for the most time you only had to specify a few. With … Read more

PHP method chaining or fluent interface?

October 21, 2022 by Tarik

It’s rather simple, really. You have a series of mutator methods that all return the original (or other) object. That way, you can keep calling methods on the returned object. <?php class fakeString { private $str; function __construct() { $this->str = “”; } function addA() { $this->str .= “a”; return $this; } function addB() { … Read more