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I've been reading about the Promise pattern, and I tried to code up a version in PHP with the help of a few examples and my own understanding of how it should work. Is what I came up with a reasonable example of the Promise pattern, or did I implement this incorrectly?
class PromiseClass {
private $callbacks = array();
private $last_return;
function promise($promise) {
if (get_class($promise) == 'Promise') {
return $promise;
} else if (is_callable($promise)) {
$this->then($promise);
return $this;
}
}
public function then (callable $callback) {
$this->callbacks[] = $callback;
return $this;
}
public function resolve () {
$callback = array_shift($this->callbacks);
if (is_callable($callback)) {
$this->last_return = $callback($this->last_return);
}
if (count($this->callbacks) > 0) {
$this->resolve();
}
}
}
Example use:
$promiser->promise(function() {
echo "sleeping\n";
sleep(3);
return 3;
})
->then(function($args) {
echo " in second function, $args\n";
});
$promiser->resolve();