Tired of "new" Everywhere? Learn Factory Method with Laravel

1. Hook & Problem Statement You're building a Laravel application. You need to create a payment processor. So you write: $processor = new StripePaymentProcessor( config('services.stripe.secret'), config('services.stripe.webhook_secret') ); Then you need to create a different processor for another part of the system: $processor = new PayPalPaymentProcessor( config('services.paypal.client_id'), config('services.paypal.secret') ); Then the requirements change. The payment processor now needs a logger, a metrics service, and a cache manager. You find yourself updating every new statement across 15 different controllers and services. Then the business says: "We want to support a new payment gateway." You search your codebase for new StripePaymentProcessor and new PayPalPaymentProcessor, and you find them scattered across 20 files. You copy-paste the pattern for the new gateway, but you miss a few places. The system breaks in production. Thi