What is the point of interfaces in PHP?

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The entire point of interfaces is to give you the flexibility to have your class be forced to implement multiple interfaces, but still not allow multiple inheritance. The issues with inheriting from multiple classes are many and varied and the wikipedia page on it sums them up pretty well.

Interfaces are a compromise. Most of the problems with multiple inheritance don’t apply to abstract base classes, so most modern languages these days disable multiple inheritance yet call abstract base classes interfaces and allows a class to “implement” as many of those as they want.

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