Revath S Kumar

Recently when I was writing a PHP API wrapper for a external service, I thought of writing it as independent module which can be plugged into any PHP application. Everything went nice but when I need to do some logging I was forced to depended on application.

So I thought of plug in a logger. Then I came to know about PHP Anonymous functions (Closures) which can be used to pass a function as a callback to another function like in JavaScript.

So I modified my Api wrapper like

<?php
Class Api {
    private static $log;

    public static function setLogger($func) {
        self::$log = &$func;
    }

    public static function errorLog($st) {
        $func = &self::$log;
        $func($st);
    }

    public function doSth() {
        self::errorLog('In doSth');
    }
}

?>

Now when we use it, I can set my logger to application logger without any issues and still my wrapper is totally independent of my application.

<?php
Class Logger {
    public static function log($statement) {
        printf("%s \r\n", $statement);
    }
}

Api::setLogger(function($statement){
    Logger::log($statement);
});

$api = new Api;
$api->doSth();

?>

So now in my Api wrapper, when I call self::errorLog the error will be logged into the application log itself.

If you have a better suggestion, please drop a comment. Thank You.