Factory Patterns are normally use to abstract away the logic for create a product. i.e creating a product by passing through some param defer the creation of different types object.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 interface IFactory() { public function createProduct ($productType) ; } class factory implements IFactory { public function createProduct ($productType) : productParent { switch ($productType) { case 'A' : return new productA(); break ; case 'B' : return new productB(); break ; default : throw new Exception ("product type is not defined" ); } } } abstract class AProductParent { abstract public function doSomething () ; } class productA extends AProductParent { public function doSomething () { echo "do somehting a" ; } } class productB extends AProductParent { public function doSomething () { echo "do somehting b" ; } }