Minibus

Hey welcome to you traveler! You are looking for a way of traveling through your software easily? Do not search anymore, you've just find the place!

Ladies and gentleman, let me present you the famous, the incredible, the revolutionary PHP Minibus !

The goal

If you are like me, you are probably coding software solutions. In many software architectures the story starts with an Entry point (cf: a controller in an MVC application). But if you think about this Entry Point you probably agree with me that it's not only one point but, in many cases, a mix of many components!

In order to avoid what I call SMFB architecture (understand: Super Mega Fuc**** Brain, as the Controller) I present you Minibus!

The principle is simple. In order to handle an application Entry Point we need three components:

• A Minibus, which contains various passengers (understand data).
• Some Stations, that can handle a minibus at some point (replace the controller).
• Finally a bus Line that contains Stations and can guide a Minibus

MVC vs MVB (Model View Bus)

To understand the differences between those two patterns here is some wonderful art illustrating the point:

The MVC

The MVB

I can't wait! Let's start traveling!

If you're wondering how it is possible to travel through software lands with php, this is the answer:

<?php

use Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\EventDispatcher;
use Knp\Minibus\Simple\Line;
use Knp\Minibus\Simple\Minibus;

# Before traveling, we need a bus line
$busLine = new Line(new EventDispatcher);

# Okay, in order to take all the minibus passengers to their destination we need to create
# Bus stations !
class DreamlandStation implements Station
{
    public function handle(Minibus $minibus)
    {
        // let's interact with the minibus
        $minibus->addPassenger('sheldon', ['name' => 'sheldon']);
    }
}

# Let's add the station to our bus line :
$busLine->addStation(new DreamlandStation);

# Now we just to make the bus line leads the minibus:
$busLine->lead(new Minibus);

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