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Domain-Driven Design in PHP

By : Keyvan Akbary, Carlos Buenosvinos, Christian Soronellas
Book Image

Domain-Driven Design in PHP

By: Keyvan Akbary, Carlos Buenosvinos, Christian Soronellas

Overview of this book

Domain-Driven Design (DDD) has arrived in the PHP community, but for all the talk, there is very little real code. Without being in a training session and with no PHP real examples, learning DDD can be challenging. This book changes all that. It details how to implement tactical DDD patterns and gives full examples of topics such as integrating Bounded Contexts with REST, and DDD messaging strategies. In this book, the authors show you, with tons of details and examples, how to properly design Entities, Value Objects, Services, Domain Events, Aggregates, Factories, Repositories, Services, and Application Services with PHP. They show how to apply Hexagonal Architecture within your application whether you use an open source framework or your own.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface
14
Bibliography
15
The End

Sample Application Service: User and Wishes


Now you know the basic rules for Aggregate Design.

The best way to learn about Aggregates is by seeing code. So let's consider the scenario of a web application where users can make wishes to be granted if something happens to them, similar to a will. For example, I would like to send an email to my wife explaining what to do with my GitHub account if I die in a horrible accident, or maybe I want to send an email telling her how much I loved her. The way to check that I'm still alive is to answer emails the platform sends to me. (If you want to know more about this application, you can visit our GitHub account. So we have users and their wishes. Let's consider only one use case: "As a User, I want to make a Wish." How could we model this? Using good practices when designing Aggregates, let's try to push for small Aggregates. In this case, that means using two different Aggregates of one Entity each, User and Wish. For the relationship between them...