DesignPatternsPHP/Creational/Prototype/index.rst

`Prototype`_
============

Purpose
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To avoid the cost of creating objects the standard way (new Foo()) and
instead create a prototype and clone it.

Examples
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-  Large amounts of data (e.g. create 1,000,000 rows in a database at
   once via a ORM).

UML Diagram
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.. image:: uml/uml.png
   :alt: Alt Prototype UML Diagram
   :align: center

Code
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You can also find these code on `GitHub`_

BookPrototype.php

.. literalinclude:: BookPrototype.php
   :language: php
   :linenos:

BarBookPrototype.php

.. literalinclude:: BarBookPrototype.php
   :language: php
   :linenos:

index.php

.. literalinclude:: index.php
   :language: php
   :linenos:

FooBookPrototype.php

.. literalinclude:: FooBookPrototype.php
   :language: php
   :linenos:

Test
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.. _`GitHub`: https://github.com/domnikl/DesignPatternsPHP/tree/master/Creational/Prototype
.. _`Prototype`: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype_pattern