Wednesday, 4 April 2007

Article: Learn About Interpreter Class with PHP 5

Alejandro in a three part series comes with a design pattern ‘Interpreter’ that parses specific commands to perform a set of predefined tasks. In this series, he will provide you with code samples showing you how to implement this pattern, ranging from building a simple application for managing user information to creating a blog.

He gives the following steps to show the practical side of the tutorial:

• The basics of implementing the interpreter pattern: he gives an explanation as to what is going to follow in the tutorial. He demonstrates with codes how to make a ‘user’ class.
• Parsing predefined commands: he shows how to build an interpreter class.
• Seeing the interpreter pattern in action: he includes a short script, which demonstrates the functionality of this pattern.