Is it possible to use mixins in php

Question

I came to know about mixins.So my doubt is, is it possible to use mixins in php?If yes then how?

Answer 1

I based mixins functionality on the blog entry found at jansch.nl.

class Node
{
    protected $__decorator_lookup = array();

    public function __construct($classes = array())
    {              
        foreach($classes as $class)
        if (class_exists($class))
        {
            $decorator = new $class($this);
            $methods = get_class_methods($decorator);
            if (is_array($methods))
                foreach($methods as $method) 
                    $this->__decorator_lookup[strtolower($method)] = $decorator;
        }
        else
            trigger_error("Tried to inherit non-existant class", E_USER_ERROR);
    }

    public function __get($name)
    {
        switch($name)
        {
             default:
                if ($this->__decorator_lookup[strtolower($name)])
                    return $this->__call($name);
        }
    }

    public function __call($method, $args = array()) 
    {
        if(isset($this->__decorator_lookup[strtolower($method)]))
            return call_user_func_array(array($this->__decorator_lookup[strtolower($method)], $method), $args);
        else
            trigger_error("Call to undefined method " . get_class($this) . "::$method()", E_USER_ERROR);
    }

    public function __clone()
    {
        $temp = $this->decorators;
        $this->decorators = array();

        foreach($temp as $decorator)
        {
            $new = clone($decorator);
            $new->__self = $this;
            $this->decorators[] = $new;
        }
    }
}

class Decorator
{
    public $__self;

    public function __construct($__self)
    {
        $this->__self = $__self;
    }

    public function &__get($key)
    {
        return $this->__self->$key;
    }

    public function __call($method, $arguments)
    {
        return call_user_func_array(array($this->__self, $method), $arguments);
    }

    public function __set($key, $value)
    {
        $this->__self->$key = $value;
    }
}

class Pretty extends Decorator
{
    public function A()
    {
        echo "a";
    }

    public function B()
    {
        $this->b = "b";
    }
}

$a = new Node(array("Pretty"));

$a->A(); // outputs "a"
$a->B();

echo($a->b); // outputs "b"

EDIT:

1. As PHP clone is shallow, added __clone support.
2. Also, bear in mind that unset WON'T work (or at least I've not managed to make it work) within the mixin. So - doing something like unset($this->__self->someValue); won't unset the value on Node. Don't know why, as in theory it should work. Funny enough unset($this->__self->someValue); var_dump(isset($this->__self->someValue)); will produce correctly false, however accessing the value from Node scope (as Node->someValue) will still produce true. There's some strange voodoo there.