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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

Command Handlers


An interesting way of executing Application Services is through a Command Bus library. A good one is Tactician. From the Tactician website:

What is a Command Bus? The term is mostly used when we combine the Command pattern with a service layer. Its job is to take a Command object (which describes what the user wants to do) and match it to a Handler (which executes it). This can help structure your code neatly.

— our Application Services are the Service Layer, and our Request objects look pretty much like Commands.

Fair enough — our Application Services are the Service Layer, and our Request objects look pretty much like Commands. Wouldn't it be great if we had a mechanism to link all the Application Services, and then based on the Request, execute the correct one? Well, that's actually what a Command Bus is.

Tactician Library and Other Options

Tactician is a Command Bus library, which allows you to use the Command pattern for your Application Services. It's especially convenient...