Use Fluent Interface with less Code

Question

How can I reduce these two lines

$foo = new Bar();
$baz = $foo->methodOne('param')->methodTwo('param');

to

$baz = Bar::methodOne('param')->methodTwo('param');

I´ve seen this specially in Laravel and it´s nice readable Code. But I stuck getting this to work with some custom Helper-Classes. It feels like mixing static + nonstatic functions which is confusing for now ...

Answer 1

For everyone passing by: Laravel offers a design pattern called Facades to achieve that effect. http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/facades

If you want to build your own Helper-Class there are four things need:

1. Helper Class itself
2. Service Container binding of that class
3. Facade Class "pointing" to Service Container
4. Alias in app.php