/** 
 * The Handler abstraction. Objects that want to be a part of the 
 * ChainOfResponsibility must implement this interface directly or via 
 * inheritance from an AbstractHandler. 
 */
interface KeyValueStore 
{ 
    /** 
     * Obtain a value. 
     * @param string $key 
     * @return mixed 
     */
    public function get($key); 
} 
 
/** 
 * Basic no-op implementation which ConcreteHandlers not interested in 
 * caching or in interfering with the retrieval inherit from. 
 */
abstract class AbstractKeyValueStore implements KeyValueStore 
{ 
    protected $_nextHandler; 
 
    public function get($key) 
    { 
 return $this->_nextHandler->get($key); 
    } 
} 
 
/** 
 * Ideally the last ConcreteHandler in the chain. At least, if inserted in 
 * a Chain it will be the last node to be called. 
 */
class SlowStore implements KeyValueStore 
{ 
    /** 
     * This could be a somewhat slow store: a database or a flat file. 
     */
    protected $_values; 
 
    public function __construct(array $values = array()) 
    { 
 $this->_values = $values; 
    } 
 
    public function get($key) 
    { 
 return $this->_values[$key]; 
    } 
} 
 
/** 
 * A ConcreteHandler that handles the request for a key by looking for it in 
 * its own cache. Forwards to the next handler in case of cache miss. 
 */
class InMemoryKeyValueStore implements KeyValueStore 
{ 
    protected $_nextHandler; 
    protected $_cached = array(); 
 
    public function __construct(KeyValueStore $nextHandler) 
    { 
 $this->_nextHandler = $nextHandler; 
    } 
 
    protected function _load($key) 
    { 
 if (!isset($this->_cached[$key])) { 
     $this->_cached[$key] = $this->_nextHandler->get($key); 
 } 
    } 
 
    public function get($key) 
    { 
 $this->_load($key); 
 return $this->_cached[$key]; 
    } 
} 
 
/** 
 * A ConcreteHandler that delegates the request without trying to 
 * understand it at all. It may be easier to use in the user interface 
 * because it can specialize itself by defining methods that generates 
 * html, or by addressing similar user interface concerns. 
 * Some Clients see this object only as an instance of KeyValueStore 
 * and do not care how it satisfy their requests, while other ones 
 * may use it in its entirety (similar to a class-based adapter). 
 * No client knows that a chain of Handlers exists. 
 */
class FrontEnd extends AbstractKeyValueStore 
{ 
    public function __construct(KeyValueStore $nextHandler) 
    { 
 $this->_nextHandler = $nextHandler; 
    } 
 
    public function getEscaped($key) 
    { 
 return htmlentities($this->get($key), ENT_NOQUOTES, 'UTF-8'); 
    } 
} 
 
// Client code 
$store = new SlowStore(array('pd' => 'Philip K. Dick', 
 'ia' => 'Isaac Asimov', 
 'ac' => 'Arthur C. Clarke', 
 'hh' => 'Helmut Heißenbüttel')); 
// in development, we skip cache and pass $store directly to FrontEnd 
$cache = new InMemoryKeyValueStore($store); 
$frontEnd = new FrontEnd($cache); 
 
echo $frontEnd->get('ia'), "\n"; 
echo $frontEnd->getEscaped('hh'), "\n";