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Domain-Driven Design in PHP

By : Keyvan Akbary, Carlos Buenosvinos, Christian Soronellas
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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

Definition


Ward Cunningham defines a Value Object as:

A measure or description of something. Examples of Value Objects are things like numbers, dates, monies and strings. Usually, they are small Objects which are used quite widely. Their identity is based on their state rather than on their Object identity. This way, you can have multiple copies of the same conceptual Value Object. Every $5 note has its own identity (thanks to its serial number), but the cash economy relies on every $5 note having the same Value as every other $5 note.

Martin Fowler defines a Value Object as:

A small Object such as a Money or the date range object. Their key property is that they follow value semantics rather than reference semantics. You can usually tell them because their notion of equality isn't based on identity, instead two Value Objects are equal if all their fields are equal. Although all fields are equal, you don't need to compare all fields if a subset is unique — for example currency codes for currency...