Aspects, Filters, and Signals, Oh, My!
Note: This article was originally published at phly, boy, phly
on 7 January 2011.
Last month, during PHP Advent, gwoo wrote an interesting post on Aspect-Oriented Design, or Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) as it is more commonly known. The article got me to thinking, and revisiting what I know about AOP, Intercepting Filters, and Signal Slots -- in particular, what use cases I see for them, what the state of current PHP offerings are, and where the future may lie.
But first, some background is probably in order, as this is a jargon-heavy post.
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