3 responses on “Ben Doherty: OOP for Theme Development”

1. Robert O'Rourke
   June 14, 2013 at 5:00 am | Reply

   Often overlooked regarding anonymous functions. You can pass in variables from the outside scope quite easily with ‘use()’:

   
   $var = 'some string';
   add_filter( 'some_filter', function( $value ) use( $var ) {
        return $value . $var;
   }, 10, 1 );
   

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2. bendohmv@gmail.com
   July 22, 2013 at 7:22 am | Reply

   Robert, you are right that anonymous functions are very useful, especially when defining short filter or action handlers that use variables in the current scope (closures.)

   In this talk, I tried to avoid using PHP features that are newer than the minimum version of PHP required by WordPress, which is 5.2.4. Since closures / anonymous functions are a PHP 5.3-ism, I didn’t want to encourage their usage and then have developers mystified at why their code breaks on a host that only supports PHP 5.2.

   Thanks for your input!

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3. Nicolas
   July 31, 2013 at 4:08 am | Reply

   Hi Ben,

   Your presentation made me change the way I used to code WordPress Theme.
   My theme (Customizr) is built upon the OOP principles you describes.

   Thanks for those awesome slides!
   PS : I credit you in my functions.php file

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