Interfaces
Unlike inheritance; if a trait has static properties, each class using that trait has independent instances of those properties.
Example using parent class:
<?php
class TestClass {
public static $_bar;
}
class Foo1 extends TestClass { }
class Foo2 extends TestClass { }
Foo1::$_bar = 'Hello';
Foo2::$_bar = 'World';
echo Foo1::$_bar . ' ' . Foo2::$_bar; // Prints: World World
?>
Example using trait:
<?php
trait TestTrait {
public static $_bar;
}
class Foo1 {
use TestTrait;
}
class Foo2 {
use TestTrait;
}
Foo1::$_bar = 'Hello';
Foo2::$_bar = 'World';
echo Foo1::$_bar . ' ' . Foo2::$_bar; // Prints: Hello World
?>
Traits
Depuis PHP 5.4.0, PHP supporte une manière de réutiliser le code appelée Traits.
Les traits sont un mécanisme de réutilisation de code dans un langage à héritage simple tel que PHP. Un trait tente de réduire certaines limites de l'héritage simple, en autorisant le développeur à réutiliser un certain nombre de méthodes dans des classes indépendantes. La sémantique entre les classes et les traits réduit la complexité et évite les problèmes typiques de l'héritage multiple et des Mixins.
Un trait est semblable à une classe, mais il ne sert qu'à grouper des fonctionnalités d'une manière intéressante. Il n'est pas possible d'instancier un Trait en lui-même. C'est un ajout à l'héritage traditionnel, qui autorise la composition horizontale de comportements, c'est à dire l'utilisation de méthodes de classe sans besoin d'héritage.
Exemple #1 Exemple d'utilisation de Trait
<?php
trait ezcReflectionReturnInfo {
function getReturnType() { /*1*/ }
function getReturnDescription() { /*2*/ }
}
class ezcReflectionMethod extends ReflectionMethod {
use ezcReflectionReturnInfo;
/* ... */
}
class ezcReflectionFunction extends ReflectionFunction {
use ezcReflectionReturnInfo;
/* ... */
}
?>
Précédence
Une méthode héritée depuis une classe mère est écrasée par une méthode issue d'un Trait. L'ordre de précédence fait en sorte que les méthodes de la classe courante écrasent les méthodes issues d'un Trait, elles-mêmes surchargeant les méthodes héritées.
Exemple #2 Exemple avec l'ordre de précédence
Une méthode héritée depuis la classe de base est écrasée par celle provenant du Trait. Ce n'est pas le cas des méthodes réelles, écrites dans la classe de base.
<?php
class Base {
public function sayHello() {
echo 'Hello ';
}
}
trait SayWorld {
public function sayHello() {
parent::sayHello();
echo 'World!';
}
}
class MyHelloWorld extends Base {
use SayWorld;
}
$o = new MyHelloWorld();
$o->sayHello();
?>
L'exemple ci-dessus va afficher :
Hello World!
Exemple #3 Autre exemple d'ordre de précédence
<?php
trait HelloWorld {
public function sayHello() {
echo 'Hello World!';
}
}
class TheWorldIsNotEnough {
use HelloWorld;
public function sayHello() {
echo 'Hello Universe!';
}
}
$o = new TheWorldIsNotEnough();
$o->sayHello();
?>
L'exemple ci-dessus va afficher :
Hello Universe!
Multiples Traits
Une classe peut utiliser de multiples Traits en les déclarant avec le mot-clé use, séparés par des virgules.
Exemple #4 Utilisation de plusieurs Traits
<?php
trait Hello {
public function sayHello() {
echo 'Hello ';
}
}
trait World {
public function sayWorld() {
echo 'World';
}
}
class MyHelloWorld {
use Hello, World;
public function sayExclamationMark() {
echo '!';
}
}
$o = new MyHelloWorld();
$o->sayHello();
$o->sayWorld();
$o->sayExclamationMark();
?>
L'exemple ci-dessus va afficher :
Hello World!
Résolution des conflits
Si deux Traits insèrent une méthode avec le même nom, une erreur fatale est levée si le conflit n'est pas explicitement résolu.
Pour résoudre un conflit de nommage entre des Traits utilisés dans la même classe, il faut utiliser l'opérateur insteadof pour choisir une des méthodes en conflit.
Puisque ce principe ne permet que d'exclure des méthodes, l'opérateur as peut être utilisé pour permettre l'inclusion d'une des méthodes conflictuelles sous un autre nom.
Exemple #5 Résolution des conflits
Dans cet exemple, la classe Talker utilise les traits A et B. Comme A et B ont des méthodes conflictuelles, on indique que l'on souhaite utiliser la variante de smallTalk depuis le trait B, et la variante de bigTalk depuis le trait A.
La classe Aliased_Talker utilise l'opérateur as pour être capable d'utiliser l'implementation bigTalk de B sous un alias supplémentaire talk.
<?php
trait A {
public function smallTalk() {
echo 'a';
}
public function bigTalk() {
echo 'A';
}
}
trait B {
public function smallTalk() {
echo 'b';
}
public function bigTalk() {
echo 'B';
}
}
class Talker {
use A, B {
B::smallTalk insteadof A;
A::bigTalk insteadof B;
}
}
class Aliased_Talker {
use A, B {
B::smallTalk insteadof A;
A::bigTalk insteadof B;
B::bigTalk as talk;
}
}
?>
Changer la visibilité des méthodes
En utilisant la syntaxe as, vous pouvez aussi ajuster la visibilité de la méthode dans la classe qui l'utilise.
Exemple #6 Changer la visibilité des méthodes
<?php
trait HelloWorld {
public function sayHello() {
echo 'Hello World!';
}
}
// Modification de la visibilité de la méthode sayHello
class MyClass1 {
use HelloWorld { sayHello as protected; }
}
// Utilisation d'un alias lors de la modification de la visibilité
// La visibilité de la méthode sayHello n'est pas modifiée
class MyClass2 {
use HelloWorld { sayHello as private myPrivateHello; }
}
?>
Traits Composés depuis d'autres Traits
Tout comme les classes peuvent utiliser des traits, d'autres traits le peuvent aussi. Un trait peut donc utiliser d'autres traits et hériter de tout ou d'une partie de ceux-ci.
Exemple #7 Traits Composés depuis d'autres Traits
<?php
trait Hello {
public function sayHello() {
echo 'Hello ';
}
}
trait World {
public function sayWorld() {
echo 'World!';
}
}
trait HelloWorld {
use Hello, World;
}
class MyHelloWorld {
use HelloWorld;
}
$o = new MyHelloWorld();
$o->sayHello();
$o->sayWorld();
?>
L'exemple ci-dessus va afficher :
Hello World!
Méthodes abstraites dans les Traits
Les traits supportent l'utilisation de méthodes abstraites afin d'imposer des contraintes aux classes sous-jacentes.
Exemple #8 Obligations requises par les méthodes abstraites
<?php
trait Hello {
public function sayHelloWorld() {
echo 'Hello'.$this->getWorld();
}
abstract public function getWorld();
}
class MyHelloWorld {
private $world;
use Hello;
public function getWorld() {
return $this->world;
}
public function setWorld($val) {
$this->world = $val;
}
}
?>
Attributs statiques dans les Traits
Des variables statiques peuvent être utilisées dans les méthodes d'un trait, mais ne peuvent être définies dans le trait. Les traits peuvent par contre déclarer des méthodes statiques pour la classe sous-jacente.
Exemple #9 Variables statiques
<?php
trait Counter {
public function inc() {
static $c = 0;
$c = $c + 1;
echo "$c\n";
}
}
class C1 {
use Counter;
}
class C2 {
use Counter;
}
$o = new C1(); $o->inc(); // echo 1
$p = new C2(); $p->inc(); // echo 1
?>
Exemple #10 Méthodes statiques
<?php
trait StaticExample {
public static function doSomething() {
return 'Doing something';
}
}
class Example {
use StaticExample;
}
Example::doSomething();
?>
Propriétés
Les traits peuvent aussi définir des propriétés.
Exemple #11 Définir des propriétes
<?php
trait PropertiesTrait {
public $x = 1;
}
class PropertiesExample {
use PropertiesTrait;
}
$example = new PropertiesExample;
$example->x;
?>
Si un trait définit une propriété, alors la classe ne peut pas définir une propriété
de même nom ; sinon, une erreur sera levée. Il s'agira d'une erreur de type
E_STRICT si la définition dans la classe est compatible
(même visibilité et valeur initiale), et d'une erreur fatale dans les autres cas.
Exemple #12 Résolution des conflits
<?php
trait PropertiesTrait {
public $same = true;
public $different = false;
}
class PropertiesExample {
use PropertiesTrait;
public $same = true; // Strict Standards
public $different = true; // Fatal error
}
?>
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User Contributed Notes
Traits - [18 notes]
Safak Ozpinar / safakozpinar at gmail ¶
1 year ago
chris dot rutledge at gmail dot com ¶
1 year ago
It may be worth noting here that the magic constant __CLASS__ becomes even more magical - __CLASS__ will return the name of the class in which the trait is being used.
for example
<?php
trait sayWhere {
public function whereAmI() {
echo __CLASS__;
}
}
class Hello {
use sayWHere;
}
class World {
use sayWHere;
}
$a = new Hello;
$a->whereAmI(); //Hello
$b = new World;
$b->whereAmI(); //World
?>
The magic constant __TRAIT__ will giev you the name of the trait
t8 at AT pobox dot com ¶
10 months ago
Another difference with traits vs inheritance is that methods defined in traits can access methods and properties of the class they're used in, including private ones.
For example:
<?php
trait MyTrait
{
protected function accessVar()
{
return $this->var;
}
}
class TraitUser
{
use MyTrait;
private $var = 'var';
public function getVar()
{
return $this->accessVar();
}
}
$t = new TraitUser();
echo $t->getVar(); // -> 'var'
?>
Serafim ¶
3 months ago
Another useful property of traits:
<?php
namespace Traits;
trait Properties{
public function __get($var){
$var = '_' . $var;
$getter = '_get' . $var;
if(method_exists($this, $getter)){
try{
$val = $this->$getter();
}catch(\Exception $e){
throw new \Exception($e);
}
return $val;
}
throw new \Exception('Can not get property: ' . $var . ', method ' . $getter . ' not exists');
}
public function __set($var, $val){
$var = '_' . $var;
$setter = '_set' . $var;
if(method_exists($this->$setter) && isset($this->$var)){
try{
$setval = $this->$setter($val);
}catch(\Exception $e){
throw new \Exception($e);
}
$this->$var = ($setval === NULL) ? $this->$var : $setval;
}else{
throw new \Exception('Can not set property: ' . $var . ', method ' . $setter . ' not exists');
}
}
}
class Some{
use \Chidori\Traits\Properties;
// Magic begin
protected $_var = 42;
protected function _get_var(){ return $this->_var; }
protected function _set_var($val){ return NULL; }
}
$s = new Some();
$s->var = 23; \\ set value
echo $s->var; \\ return 42? where is my 23? =)
?>
ryanhanekamp at yahoo dot com ¶
1 year ago
Using AS on a __construct method (and maybe other magic methods) is really, really bad. The problem is that is doesn't throw any errors, at least in 5.4.0. It just sporadically resets the connection. And when I say "sporadically," I mean that arbitrary changes in the preceding code can cause the browser connection to reset or not reset *consistently*, so that subsequent page refreshes will continue to hang, crash, or display perfectly in the same fashion as the first load of the page after a change in the preceding code, but the slightest change in the code can change this state. (I believe it is related to precise memory usage.)
I've spent a good part of the day chasing down this one, and weeping every time commenting or even moving a completely arbitrary section of code would cause the connection to reset. It was just by luck that I decided to comment the
"__construct as primitiveObjectConstruct"
line and then the crashes went away entirely.
My parent trait constructor was very simple, so my fix this time was to copy the functionality into the child __construct. I'm not sure how I'll approach a more complicated parent trait constructor.
ryan at derokorian dot com ¶
1 year ago
Simple singleton trait.
<?php
trait singleton {
/**
* private construct, generally defined by using class
*/
//private function __construct() {}
public static function getInstance() {
static $_instance = NULL;
$class = __CLASS__;
return $_instance ?: $_instance = new $class;
}
public function __clone() {
trigger_error('Cloning '.__CLASS__.' is not allowed.',E_USER_ERROR);
}
public function __wakeup() {
trigger_error('Unserializing '.__CLASS__.' is not allowed.',E_USER_ERROR);
}
}
/**
* Example Usage
*/
class foo {
use singleton;
private function __construct() {
$this->name = 'foo';
}
}
class bar {
use singleton;
private function __construct() {
$this->name = 'bar';
}
}
$foo = foo::getInstance();
echo $foo->name;
$bar = bar::getInstance();
echo $bar->name;
greywire at gmail dot com ¶
1 year ago
The best way to understand what traits are and how to use them is to look at them for what they essentially are: language assisted copy and paste.
If you can copy and paste the code from one class to another (and we've all done this, even though we try not to because its code duplication) then you have a candidate for a trait.
Jason dot Hofer dot deletify dot this dot part at gmail dot com ¶
1 year ago
A (somewhat) practical example of trait usage.
Without traits:
<?php
class Controller {
/* Controller-specific methods defined here. */
}
class AdminController extends Controller {
/* Controller-specific methods inherited from Controller. */
/* Admin-specific methods defined here. */
}
class CrudController extends Controller {
/* Controller-specific methods inherited from Controller. */
/* CRUD-specific methods defined here. */
}
class AdminCrudController extends CrudController {
/* Controller-specific methods inherited from Controller. */
/* CRUD-specific methods inherited from CrudController. */
/* (!!!) Admin-specific methods copied and pasted from AdminController. */
}
?>
With traits:
<?php
class Controller {
/* Controller-specific methods defined here. */
}
class AdminController extends Controller {
/* Controller-specific methods inherited from Controller. */
/* Admin-specific methods defined here. */
}
trait CrudControllerTrait {
/* CRUD-specific methods defined here. */
}
class AdminCrudController extends AdminController {
use CrudControllerTrait;
/* Controller-specific methods inherited from Controller. */
/* Admin-specific methods inherited from AdminController. */
/* CRUD-specific methods defined by CrudControllerTrait. */
}
?>
anthony bishopric ¶
1 year ago
The magic method __call works as expected using traits.
<?php
trait Call_Helper{
public function __call($name, $args){
return count($args);
}
}
class Foo{
use Call_Helper;
}
$foo = new Foo();
echo $foo->go(1,2,3,4); // echoes 4
D. Marti ¶
6 months ago
Traits are useful for strategies, when you want the same data to be handled (filtered, sorted, etc) differently.
For example, you have a list of products that you want to filter out based on some criteria (brands, specs, whatever), or sorted by different means (price, label, whatever). You can create a sorting trait that contains different functions for different sorting types (numeric, string, date, etc). You can then use this trait not only in your product class (as given in the example), but also in other classes that need similar strategies (to apply a numeric sort to some data, etc).
<?php
trait SortStrategy {
private $sort_field = null;
private function string_asc($item1, $item2) {
return strnatcmp($item1[$this->sort_field], $item2[$this->sort_field]);
}
private function string_desc($item1, $item2) {
return strnatcmp($item2[$this->sort_field], $item1[$this->sort_field]);
}
private function num_asc($item1, $item2) {
if ($item1[$this->sort_field] == $item2[$this->sort_field]) return 0;
return ($item1[$this->sort_field] < $item2[$this->sort_field] ? -1 : 1 );
}
private function num_desc($item1, $item2) {
if ($item1[$this->sort_field] == $item2[$this->sort_field]) return 0;
return ($item1[$this->sort_field] > $item2[$this->sort_field] ? -1 : 1 );
}
private function date_asc($item1, $item2) {
$date1 = intval(str_replace('-', '', $item1[$this->sort_field]));
$date2 = intval(str_replace('-', '', $item2[$this->sort_field]));
if ($date1 == $date2) return 0;
return ($date1 < $date2 ? -1 : 1 );
}
private function date_desc($item1, $item2) {
$date1 = intval(str_replace('-', '', $item1[$this->sort_field]));
$date2 = intval(str_replace('-', '', $item2[$this->sort_field]));
if ($date1 == $date2) return 0;
return ($date1 > $date2 ? -1 : 1 );
}
}
class Product {
public $data = array();
use SortStrategy;
public function get() {
// do something to get the data, for this ex. I just included an array
$this->data = array(
101222 => array('label' => 'Awesome product', 'price' => 10.50, 'date_added' => '2012-02-01'),
101232 => array('label' => 'Not so awesome product', 'price' => 5.20, 'date_added' => '2012-03-20'),
101241 => array('label' => 'Pretty neat product', 'price' => 9.65, 'date_added' => '2012-04-15'),
101256 => array('label' => 'Freakishly cool product', 'price' => 12.55, 'date_added' => '2012-01-11'),
101219 => array('label' => 'Meh product', 'price' => 3.69, 'date_added' => '2012-06-11'),
);
}
public function sort_by($by = 'price', $type = 'asc') {
if (!preg_match('/^(asc|desc)$/', $type)) $type = 'asc';
switch ($by) {
case 'name':
$this->sort_field = 'label';
uasort($this->data, array('Product', 'string_'.$type));
break;
case 'date':
$this->sort_field = 'date_added';
uasort($this->data, array('Product', 'date_'.$type));
break;
default:
$this->sort_field = 'price';
uasort($this->data, array('Product', 'num_'.$type));
}
}
}
$product = new Product();
$product->get();
$product->sort_by('name');
echo '<pre>'.print_r($product->data, true).'</pre>';
?>
karolis at iwsolutions dot ie ¶
10 months ago
Not very obvious but trait methods can be called as if they were defined as static methods in a regular class
<?php
trait Foo {
function bar() {
return 'baz';
}
}
echo Foo::bar(),"\\n";
?>
Anonymous ¶
1 year ago
Traits can not implement interfaces.
(should be obvious, but tested is tested)
Edward ¶
1 year ago
The difference between Traits and multiple inheritance is in the inheritance part. A trait is not inherited from, but rather included or mixed-in, thus becoming part of "this class". Traits also provide a more controlled means of resolving conflicts that inevitably arise when using multiple inheritance in the few languages that support them (C++). Most modern languages are going the approach of a "traits" or "mixin" style system as opposed to multiple-inheritance, largely due to the ability to control ambiguities if a method is declared in multiple "mixed-in" classes.
Also, one can not "inherit" static member functions in multiple-inheritance.
artur at webprojektant dot pl ¶
7 months ago
Trait can not have the same name as class because it will show: Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class
dario dot masamune at gmail dot com ¶
9 months ago
Just in case someone was wondering, traits can be inside namespaces too! Cool!!
syzer3 at gmail dot com ¶
28 days ago
Traits can be useful to create Fluent API
ex:
trait StaticMake
{
public static function make()
{
return new static();
}
}
class HelloWorld
{
use StaticMake;
public function getHello()
{
return "Hello World";
}
}
//now instead:
$theHello = new HelloWorld;
echo $theHello -> getHello();
//one may just use
echo HelloWorld:make() -> getHello();
jan ¶
2 months ago
Hi! Just a quick solution to use class-identical static property. I use it to store SQL descriptions, which is always same for the same class, but may change for an extended class.
<?php
interface hasO{ // just for forcing basic functionalities
static function O($use_as);
function myObj($append = "nothing");
function inc();
static function getName();
}
class O{ // the target class to access
var $val, $num = 0;
function setVAl($val){$this->val = $val;}
function inc(){$this->num++;}
function prt($append){echo "hello, i'm {$this->val} with number: {$this->num} and append a string: {$append}<br>"; }
}
trait T{ // the trait to access O
private static $objs = [];
private static $preference = [];
static function setPreference($class){
self::$preference[get_called_class()] = $class; // we can hack even polymorphism
}
static function O($use_as = null){
/* we use $use_as, preference or the current calling class in this order. */
$cc = ($use_as ? $use_as : (($cc2 = @self::$preference[get_called_class()])!= null ? $cc2 : get_called_class()));
if (!@self::$objs[$cc]){ // you have to use 'self::' to access a private method.
self::$objs[$cc] = new O();
self::$objs[$cc]->setVal(static::getName()); // but you can use 'static::' to access class method.
}
return self::$objs[$cc];
}
}
class A implements hasO{ // A is independent from the other classes
use T;
static function getName() {return 'A';}
function myObj($append = "i'm A",$use_as = null){
if (!$append && $append !== false) $append = "i'm ".get_called_class();
self::O($use_as)->prt($append);
}
function inc(){self::O()->inc();}
}
class B implements hasO{
use T;
function myObj($append = null){
if (!$append && $append !== false) $append = "i'm ".get_called_class();
static::O()->prt($append);
}
function inc(){static::O()->inc();}
static function getName() {return get_called_class();}
}
class C extends B{} // not relevant inheritence.
class D extends B{
use T; // you won't get errors if you accidently reuse the same trait
static function getName() {return 'a child of B ';} // we can use current object static methods, so inheritence is intact
function inc(){
static::O()->inc(); // both self::O and static::O is usable to preserve further inherits
self::O()->inc();
}
}
class E extends B{
const CLSS = 'E';
function myObj($append="EEEE!", $use_as = null){
if (!$append && $append !== false) $append = "i'm ".get_called_class();
self::O($use_as)->prt($append);
}
}
$a = new A;$b = new B;$c = new C;$d = new D;$e = new E; // create all objects...
$b->myObj(); $b->inc(); $b->myObj();
$c->myObj(); $c->inc(); $c->myObj(); // C comes before A, so C's object is already instantized before A tries to access it
$a->myObj(); $a->inc(); $a->myObj();
$a->myObj(null,'C'); // this isn't works, because it's protected private
$d->myObj(); $d->inc(); $d->myObj();
$e->myObj(); $e->inc(); $e->myObj("i'm E again");
$e->myObj(0,'C'); // but this IS working, even if it's private NOT protected.
$e::setPreference('B'); // we want to morph to B
$e->myObj();
$e->inc(); // we incement B's object now as seen bellow
$e->myObj(); $b->myObj();
?>
farhad dot peb at gmail dot com ¶
1 year ago
<?php
trait first_trait
{
function first_function()
{
echo "From First Trait";
}
}
trait second_trait
{
function first_function()
{
echo "From Second Trait";
}
}
class first_class
{
use first_trait, second_trait
{
// This class will now call the method
// first function from first_trait only
first_trait::first_function insteadof second_trait;
// first_function of second_traits can be
// accessed with second_function
second_trait::first_function as second_function;
}
}
$obj = new first_class();
// Output: From First Trait
$obj->first_function();
// Output: From Second Trait
$obj->second_function();
?>
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