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Modern PHP 8.x & Internals 5-8 Years (Senior) Medium Production Scenario

How do Readonly Classes in PHP 8.2+ enforce immutability in Domain-Driven Design (DDD) Data Transfer Objects (DTOs)?

Real-World Scenario / Incident Description

Designing an immutable Value Object for financial ledger entries that prevents any property mutations once instantiated.

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PHP 8.2 Readonly Classes

Marking a class readonly automatically enforces that all declared properties are readonly and prevents dynamic property creation:

readonly class TransferLedgerDTO
{
    public function __construct(
        public string $transactionId,
        public int $amountCents,
        public string $currency,
        public DateTimeImmutable $timestamp
    ) {}
}
Related Concepts: #Readonly Classes #DDD #Immutability #PHP 8.2