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Excellent post. I like seeing advanced PHP stuff here. The ignored step-child of languages around here, it seems.

Even though I'm a bit of an OO snob and use design patterns in my work, I also like the simplicity of WordPress's plugin system. I'm not even sure what it would be called but it's proven to be really effective with thousands of plugins.

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@jakejake Wordpress uses a procedural version of the mediator pattern (just like Drupal's hooks).

As I said in my post, just because an application doesn't use classes, doesn't mean it's not OOP or borrowing OOP patterns (and Drupal is actually a pretty good example of that).

I suppose resembles the mediator. I just find it to be really simple even though I don't write code in a procedural style, I appreciate different techniques. I think what makes me an OO snob is that I want the interfaces to be there so my IDE or the compiler/interpreter can tell me if I missed a parameter or didn't return the right type.

Actually, my impression is that the php-is-bad dogma has eased up a bit recently. And good at that - programmung language religion gets boring very fast.

It is strange and interesting to see the perception of a language change. Javascript has probably had the fastest and most extreme change in my mind - going from a tool for building doo-dads and alert boxes to one that has MVC frameworks, server-side code, etc.

Even though I'm not a Wordpress fan, I recently adapted their plugin system for one of our projects. I really like the simplicity of it.

I do as well. Just having every function that you write instead of returning values, return values through a "do_plugins" function.

It's such a simple and easy thing to write into your code with almost no effort, yet if you do it for every function your app would wind up being extremely pluggable.

this seems interesting. any (simple) examples I can study?

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