Challenge: Interfaces

Task

• Create a User class with a protected $username property and methods that can set and get the $username.
• Create an Author interface with two abstract methods that can give the user an array of authorship privileges. The first method is setAuthorPrivileges() with the parameter $array, and the second method is getAuthorPrivileges().
• Create an Editor interface with the method setEditorPrivileges() with the parameter $array, and another with the getEditorPrivileges() method to set and get the editor’s privileges.
• Create an AuthorEditor class that extends the User class and implements both the Author and the Editor interfaces.
• Add some methods in the AuthorEditor class that it should implement and the properties that these methods force us to add to the class.
• In the test() method, create an object named $user1 from the class AuthorEditor and set its $username to Balthazar. Set an array of authorship privileges, including write text and add punctuation, in the $user1 object. Set the editorial privileges edit text and edit punctuation in the $user1 object.
• Write code in the test() method to get and print the $user1 name and privileges.

Expected output

Balthazar has the following privileges:  write text, add punctuation, edit text, edit punctuation,

Coding exercise

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