PHP - Object Cloning & Clone Magic Method - Full PHP 8 Tutorial

In this lesson, you will learn how to clone objects & the magic method that gets called after an object has been cloned in PHP.
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[@bogdanmarian3786]

Hello Gio, thank you for the great explanation on the cloning of objects topic. What would be a practical scenario where we would implement/use this oop feature?

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There can be many use cases, some that come to mind are a way to copy an object and keep it as a way to revert your object back to what it was before you made changes to it. Or you may want to clone a configuration or a DTO object like an address

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[@rosarioveneruso9928]

Hi Gio , what do you mean exactly by shallow copy of an object?

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Hello Rosario. Shallow copy means that when object is copied its values are copied normally but if the value is an object itself then it's reference is copied, so if you make a change on the object property on your cloned object it makes change on the original object as well that you copied/cloned from. Deep copy makes the actual real copy even for inner objects.

[@bogdansipka6503]

Just to mention that you can use __FUNCTION__ to print name of the function :)

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Sure or __METHOD__ which would apply more in this context since we are dealing with methods but sometimes var_dump is all thats needed :D

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[@barteqzz5616]

3:20, Can't we just use self::__construct(), to call the constructor and generate new unique ID? i did it and it works, is it a bad practice or something?

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Yea in my opinion it doesnt look right to call constructor inside your clone

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Is it correct to say that the 'clone' keyword in PHP is an implementation of the Prototype pattern?

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If you are referring to Prototype pattern & not prototype from javascript then yes

[@ryanford516]

Thanks for the video, Gio!
0:51 I wonder why the dumped objects have these out-of-order IDs: #3, #2 and then #4. I ran the same code on my machine and got #1, #2 and #3. How can that be explained?

[@ProgramWithGio]

I've ran the code multiple times during recording, that could be the reason. The numbers should indicate in which order the objects were instantiated if I'm not mistaken regardless of which order you are dumping them out.

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