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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

Bounded Contexts and Applications


If we take the example of a fictional company called BuyIt, which deals with an e-commerce Domain, it may make sense to create a different application for each of the different Bounded Contexts solving specific Domain areas.

If some of the different Bounded Contexts are Order Management, Payment Management, Catalog Management, and Inventory Management, we recommend having an application for each one: 

                    

Each application exposes any set of delivery mechanisms needed. With the microservices trend, more and more people build Bounded Contexts that end up exposing REST APIs to the outside world. However, a Bounded Context is more than just an API. Remember that an API is just one of many delivery mechanisms; a Bounded Context can provide a web interface to interact with too.

Note

Can Two Bounded Contexts Be in the Same Application? What about the Other Way Around? The best option is one Subdomain, one Bounded Context, and one application. If we...