Managing Product Reviews and Data Aggregation in PHP

Introduction

Hello, and welcome to today's lesson! Today, we are going to dive into the world of managing product reviews and applying data aggregation in practice. We will start with a relatively simple Starter Task to set up our base and then gradually build up to a more complex solution involving data aggregation. Let's jump in!

Starter Task: Methods and Their Definitions

For our starter task, we will lay the foundation by implementing basic operations for managing product reviews. We will be using classes to encapsulate the details of a product review. Our Review class will consist of the following properties:

  • $text — The textual content of the review.
  • $rating — The rating score of the review, ranging from 1 to 5.
  • $flagged — A boolean indicating whether the review is flagged as inappropriate.

These are the methods we will implement in a ReviewManager class:

  • addReview($productId, $reviewId, $reviewText, $rating) — Adds a review to the product specified by $productId. If a review with $reviewId already exists, it updates the existing review. Returns true if the review was added or updated successfully, false otherwise. For newly added items, the $flagged attribute is set to false initially.

  • getReview($productId, $reviewId) — Returns the review details ($text, $rating, and $flagged fields) for the review specified by $reviewId under the given $productId. If the review or product does not exist, returns null.

  • deleteReview($productId, $reviewId) — Deletes the review specified by $reviewId under the given $productId. Returns true if the review was deleted, false otherwise.

Starter Task Implementation

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