Traits vs. interfaces

Question

I\'ve been trying to study up on PHP lately, and I find myself getting hung up on traits. I understand the concept of horizontal code reuse and not wanting to necessarily in

Answer 1

For beginners above answer might be difficult, this is the easiest way to understand it:

Traits

trait SayWorld {
    public function sayHello() {
        echo 'World!';
    }
}

so if you want to have sayHello function in other classes without re-creating the whole function you can use traits,

class MyClass{
  use SayWorld;

}

$o = new MyClass();
$o->sayHello();

Cool right!

Not only functions you can use anything in the trait(function, variables, const...). Also, you can use multiple traits: use SayWorld, AnotherTraits;

Interface

  interface SayWorld {
     public function sayHello();
  }

  class MyClass implements SayWorld { 
     public function sayHello() {
        echo 'World!';
     }
}

So this is how interfaces differ from traits: You have to re-create everything in the interface in an implemented class. Interfaces don't have an implementation and interfaces can only have functions and constants, it cannot have variables.

I hope this helps!