Posted by FluffyCat on 08/22/06 21:52

In June I continued my series of design patterns examples using PHP
5 with the Adapter Pattern. Here now is my 17th design pattern
example, the Bridge Pattern.

http://www.fluffycat.com/PHP-Design-Patterns/Bridge/

In the Bridge Pattern we have an abstraction and implementation in
different class hierarchies.

Not something I use all the time, but if you have a situation where a
class varies functionality based on two completely independent needs
it can be useful.

The classis GOF* implementation has a class needing to create
different windows on different platforms. So, you don't need to redo
anything about the platofrms when you add a new type of window or vice
versa.

*GOF - Gang of Four, referring to the four authors of "Elements of
Reusable Object-Oriented Software".

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