cs Prototype

Prototype/BookPrototype.php

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+<?php
+
+namespace DesignPatterns\Prototype;
+
+/**
+ * Prototype pattern
+ *
+ * Purpose:
+ * to avoid the cost of creating objects the standard way (new Foo()) and instead create a prototype and clone it
+ *
+ * Examples:
+ * - Large amounts of data (e.g. create 1,000,000 rows in a database at once via a ORM)
+ *
+ */
+abstract class BookPrototype
+{
+    /**
+     * @var string
+     */
+    protected $title;
+
+    /**
+     * @var string
+     */
+    protected $category;
+
+    /**
+     * @abstract
+     * @return void
+     */
+    abstract public function __clone();
+
+    /**
+     * @return string
+     */
+    public function getTitle()
+    {
+        return $this->title;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @param string $title
+     */
+    public function setTitle($title)
+    {
+        $this->title = $title;
+    }
+}