Magento Design Patterns

Question

Magento, IMHO, represents a PHP system that is built on well thought-out coding principles - reuseable design patterns being one of them. In terms of an example of a PHP system

Answer 1

Prototype:

Mage:getModel('catalog/product')->getTypeInstance();

Event-Observer Pair:

# PHP
Mage::dispatchEvent('event_name', array('key'=>$value));

# config.xml

    
        
            
                
                    
                        Class_Name
                        methodName
                    
                
            
        
    

Object Pool:

$id = Mage::objects()->save($object);
$object = Mage::objects($id);

Iterator:

Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->getCollection();