PHP Design Patterns

Patterns are ways to describe best practices and good designs. They show a flexible solution to common programming problems.

* Factory Patterns: The Factory pattern allows for the instantiation of objects at runtime. It is called a Factory Pattern since it is responsible for "manufacturing" an object. A Parameterized Factory receives the name of the class to instantiate as argument.

* Singleton Patterns: The Singleton pattern applies to situations in which there needs to be a single instance of a class. The most common example of this is a database connection. Implementing this pattern allows a programmer to make this single instance easily accessible by many other objects.
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metaphone — Calculate the metaphone key of a string

Description
string metaphone ( string $str [, int $phones ] )

Calculates the metaphone key of str .

Similar to soundex() metaphone creates the same key for similar sounding words. It's more accurate than soundex() as it knows the basic rules of English pronunciation. The metaphone generated keys are of variable length.

Metaphone was developed by Lawrence Philips . It is described in ["Practical Algorithms for Programmers", Binstock & Rex, Addison Wesley, 1995].

quotemeta — Quote meta characters

Description

string quotemeta ( string $str )

Returns a version of str with a backslash character (\) before every character that is among these:

. \ + * ? [ ^ ] ( $ )


  Returns the string with meta characters quoted.
This function is
binary-safe.

parse_str — Parses the string into variables

str

The input string.

arr

If the second parameter arr is present, variables are stored in this variable as array elements instead.

void parse_str ( string $str [, array &$arr ] )

No value is returned.
$str = "first=value&arr[]=foo+bar&arr[]=baz";
parse_str($str);
echo $first; // value
echo $arr[0]; // foo bar
echo $arr[1]; // baz

parse_str($str, $output);
echo $output['first']; // value
echo $output['arr'][0]; // foo bar
echo $output['arr'][1]; // baz

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sha1 — Calculate the sha1 hash of a string

string sha1 ( string $str [, bool $raw_output ] )
Returns the sha1 hash as a string.

$str = 'apple';

if (sha1($str) === 'd0be2dc421be4fcd0172e5afceea3970e2f3d940') {
echo "Would you like a green or red apple?";
exit;
}
?>