Does PHP have an answer to Java style class generics?

Question

Upon building an MVC framework in PHP I ran into a problem which could be solved easily using Java style generics. An abstract Controller class might look something like thi

Answer 1

You can consider to switch to Hack and HHVM. It is developed by Facebook and full compatible to PHP. You can decide to use or

It support that what you want:

http://docs.hhvm.com/manual/en/hack.generics.php

I know this is not PHP. But it is compatible with it, and also improves your performance dramatically.