Dependency Injection

To implement a loosely coupled architecture in order to get better testable, maintainable and extendable code.

• The Doctrine2 ORM uses dependency injection e.g. for configuration that is injected into a Connection object. For testing purposes, one can easily create a mock object of the configuration and inject that into the Connection object
• Many frameworks already have containers for DI that create objects via a configuration array and inject them where needed (i.e. in Controllers)

DatabaseConfiguration

namespace DesignPatterns\Structural\DependencyInjection;

class DatabaseConfiguration
{
    public function __construct(
        private string $host,
        private int $port,
        private string $username,
        private string $password
    ) { }

    public function getHost(): string
    {
        return $this->host;
    }

    public function getPort(): int
    {
        return $this->port;
    }

    public function getUsername(): string
    {
        return $this->username;
    }

    public function getPassword(): string
    {
        return $this->password;
    }
}

DatabaseConnection

namespace DesignPatterns\Structural\DependencyInjection;

class DatabaseConnection
{
    public function __construct(private DatabaseConfiguration $configuration)
    {
    }

    public function getDsn(): string
    {
        // this is just for the sake of demonstration, not a real DSN
        // notice that only the injected config is used here, so there is
        // a real separation of concerns here

        return sprintf(
            '%s:%s@%s:%d',
            $this->configuration->getUsername(),
            $this->configuration->getPassword(),
            $this->configuration->getHost(),
            $this->configuration->getPort()
        );
    }
}