Tuesday, 6 March 2007

Creating Web Pages with the Flyweight Pattern in PHP 5

In the final article of a two part series, Alejandro Gervasio, explains how to apply the flyweight pattern in a real-world situation. In the first article he introduced the key concepts of the design pattern and showed you how to apply them in the context of a form generator application.

In the final article, he teaches you in a step-by-step format how to create in PHP 5 a flyweight class to balance the instantiation of objects that will be used to generate web documents on the fly.

He explains the tutorial in the following sections:

• Building dynamic web page elements
• Defining a flyweight factory class
• Putting the flyweight factory class to work