Thought I would do a couple of posts on some basic Object Oriented design patterns and examples of their implementation within the Kohana framework. They’re not going to go into any great detail but will hopefully provide a small insight into some of the inner workings of Kohana and enable  you to make full use of some of the inherent power these patterns provide.

This article covers the adapter pattern. You can see some of the Kohana system libraries making use of this pattern by checking out the system/libraries directory. Within this directory you will find the drivers folder, for now take a quick look at it and see if you recognise any of the class names, we’ll come back to it later.

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Up until very recently any software diagrams I have put together have all been built through Microsoft Visio, however on the tip of a colleague I tried out OmniGraffle from the omni group, from this point on Visio can remain closed!

I love the user interface, as with most things mac it just feels lighter and stuff is generally where you would expect it to be, which makes for a nice and shallow learning curve and less of the head-banging, ‘microsoft-esc’ frustration!

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We are currently approaching the closing stages of a fairly large product at work. The application is a fully object oriented, php5 based web application which has made fairly extensive use of new constructs introduced in php5.

The project has been a fantastic learning experience and has really helped with my understanding of developing large scale applications in php, specifically enterprise scale solutions to issues such as portability, scalability, security and efficiency (code optimisation etc).

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