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ID: 41856 Comment by: zatacorothx at gmail dot com Reported by: mbaynton at gmail dot com Summary: support for anonymous classes Status: Open Type: Feature/Change Request Package: *General Issues PHP Version: 5.2.3 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Anonymous classes in Java are convenient when used with Interfaces. In PHP, this could help with MVC frameworks. Say all pages had a class that implemented PageController: [some_page.php] $page_controller = new PageInterface() { function doGet() {} function doPost() {} }; A current workaround would be using a factory or constructor to which you pass required methods, and not using an interface. It works, but then you have to deal with missing methods in application logic where you could otherwise just handle an error. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-07-22 15:32:27] pacerier at gmail dot com +1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-03-15 18:45:47] paj...@php.net Not exactly the same but look at closure and traits support in 5.4. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-03-15 18:35:55] david71rj at gmail dot com +1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-11-09 11:34:50] antoniocs at gmail dot com Would be nice to have this in Php 5.4 (or a latter version) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-05-25 19:02:47] urkle at outoforder dot cc David, I do not believe you are understanding the request here. I believe this is more what is being requested. class Base { private $name; public function __construct($name) { $this->name = $name; } public function test() { return $this->name; } } $obj = new class extends Base { public function test() { return '<'.$this->name.'>'; } }; echo $obj->test(); Basically similar to that of anonymous functions introduced in PHP 5.3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=41856 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=41856&edit=1