ubiquitous-language.md

Ubiquitous Language

A language structured around the domain model and used by all team members to connect all the activities of the team with the software. (Eric Evans)

Definitions

This is a list of words and definitions of the language.

class FQN

The class Fully Qualified Name is mostly given as a string. It refers to a file with an absolute namespace. But no \ is prepended before the Namespace.

$fqn1 = "Webforge\Code\Test\Base";
$fqn2 = "stdClass";
$fqn3 = "Doctrine\ORM\Mapping";

This is equivalent to the return value from get_class()

class name

The class Name is the name of the class without its namespace. Its distinct from an FQN.

$fqn1 = "Webforge\Code\Test\Base";
$className1 = 'Base';

$fqn2 = "stdClass";
$className2 = 'stdClass';

$fqn3 = "Doctrine\ORM\Mapping";
$className2 = 'Mapping';

Package

the term is used as used in composer. A package is a collection of class files and scripts or binaries that represent a common context. A Package can be a kind of library, or application, or something else. On github one repository would be considered as a package.

Project

A Project is a more contextual package. As a package can be nearly everything, a project is at least a small webapplication with a directory structure, public and admin URLs and a stage status. (e.g. development, staging or production).

Container

Mostly used as dendency injection container. A class that helps you to create instances of objects for your package.