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Short Description Workflow component heavily used by Alter Way
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Workflow Component 
This component provides a workflow engine written as a PHP library.
Instead of modeling a workflow as a Petri net or trying to enumerate workflow patterns, the library consider a workflow as a simple directed graph: vertices model nodes and edges model transitions.
Nodes
A node represents a point in a life cycle.
The Node class implements the concept.
A node is referenced by a unique name across the workflow.
The constraint is the responsibility of NodeMap class.
Transitions
A transition is a link between nodes.
The Transition class implements the concept.
At creation, a transition is given a specification object implementing the SpecificationInterface.
the specification is used as a business rule to decide where to advance in the workflow.
Tokens
A token is a simple string used to initialize the workflow in a particular node. The idea is to consider the token as a thing placed at the center of a node. When workflow engine is on, the token is moving from node to node.
Events
An event is an object created each time a token arrives at a node.
The Event class implements the concept.
This class extends the Event class from the Symfony EventDispatcher component.
You can write listeners or subscribers to implement any business behaviour.
Usage
Let's say you are writing a blog engine in PHP and you want to implement the following workflow:
- an article begins its existence as a draft
- when ready, the article gets published
- if controversial, the article is deleted
- when too old, the article is archived
First of all, you need to write classes implementing SpecificationInterface for every business rule:
Then, you can use the Builder class and the specifications to describe the workflow:
Finally, you have to listen on events dispatched by the workflow to attach the business behavior:
Contributing
Pretty please, with sugar on top, phpspec specifications are provided and should be green when contributing code.
References
Theory
PHP
- An activity based workflow engine
- eZ Workflow component
- Yii simpleWorkflow extension
- Galaxia workflow engine
- State pattern by Sebastian Bergmann
- Petrinet Framework
Licencing
See the bundled LICENSE file for details.
