s/fluent/decorated/

I've read some posts about "fluent interfaces" and I have to agree that it's a bad idea to sacrifice a reasonable API to be able to write english code.

It's anyway possible to accomplish that to some extent on a need-by-need basis with a class of only 20 lines of code:

<?php
class ReturnThisDecorator
{
    private $object;
    public $result;

    function __construct($object)
    {
        if (is_object($object)) {
            $this->object = $object;
        } else {
            throw new InvalidArgumentException(
                "Expected an object as argument"
            );
        }
    }

    function __call($method, $params)
    {
        $this->result = call_user_func_array(
            array($this->object, $method), $params
        );
        return $this;
    }
}

$sms = new ReturnThisDecorator(new SMS);
echo $sms->from('...')->to('...')->message('...')->send()->result;
?>