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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

Chapter 11. Application

The Application layer is the area that separates the Domain Model from the clients that query or change its state. Application Services are the building blocks for such a layer. As Vaughn Vernon says: "Application Services are the direct clients of the domain model." You could think about an Application Service as a point of contact between the outside world (HTML forms, API clients, the command line, frameworks, UI, and so on.) and the Domain Model itself. It might help by thinking about the top-level use cases that your system exposes to the world, example: "as guest, I want to register," "as a logged user, I want to purchase a product," and so on.

In this chapter, we'll explore how to implement Application Services, understand the role of the Command pattern, and establish the responsibilities of an Application Service. To do this, let's consider the use case of signing up a new user.

Conceptually, in order to register a new user, we need to:

  • Get an email and password...