PHP objects, patterns, and practice : build powerful code by mastering PHP's object-oriented enhancements, design patterns, and essential development tools

The 5th edition of this popular book has been fully updated for PHP 7, including replacing the PEAR package manager with Composer, and new material on Vagrant and PHP standards. It provides a solid grounding in PHP's support for objects, it builds on this foundation to instill core principles of software design and then covers the tools and practices needed to develop, test and deploy robust code.__PHP Objects, Patterns, and Practice__ begins by covering PHP's object-oriented features. It introduces key topics including class declaration, inheritance, reflection and much more.The next section is devoted to design patterns. It explains the principles that make patterns powerful. The book covers many of the classic design patterns and includes chapters on enterprise and database patterns.The last segment of the book covers the tools and practices that can help turn great code into a successful project. The section shows how to manage multiple developers and releases with git, how to manage builds and dependencies with Composer. It also explores strategies for automated testing and continuous integration. Taken together these three elements: object fundamentals, design principles, and best practice will help the reader develop elegant and rock solid systems.PHP Objects, Patterns, and Practice: * Describes and demonstrates PHP's built-in object-oriented features * Breaks down the principles of object-oriented design, explaining key design patterns using practical examples. * Discusses the tools and practices necessary for developing, testing and deploying exemplary applications. What You'll Learn:* How to work with object fundamentals: writing classes and methods, instantiating objects, creating powerful class hierarchies using inheritance. * Master advanced object-oriented features, including static methods and properties, managing error conditions with exceptions, and creating abstract classes and interfaces. * Learn about the new object-oriented features introduced by PHP 7 and why they matter for your code. * Understand and use design principles to deploy objects and classes effectively in your projects. * Learn about design patterns, their purpose, structure and the underlying principles that govern them. Discover a set of powerful patterns that you can deploy in your own projects. * Learn about the tools and practices that can guarantee a successful project including unit testing; version control, build, installation and package management; and continuous integration. Who This Book is For:This book is suitable for anyone with at least a basic knowledge of PHP who wants to use its object-oriented features in their projects. Those who already know their interfaces from their abstracts may well still find it hard to use these features in their systems. They will benefit from the book's emphasis on design. They will learn how to choose and combine the participants of a system; how to read design patterns and how to use them in their code. Finally this book is for PHP coders who want to learn about the practices and tools (version control, testing, continuous integration, etc) that can make projects safe, elegant and stable. The 5th edition of this popular book has been fully updated for PHP 7, including replacing the PEAR package manager with Composer, and new material on Vagrant and PHP standards. It provides a solid grounding in PHP's support for objects, it builds on this foundation to instill core principles of software design and then covers the tools and practices needed to develop, test and deploy robust code. PHP Objects, Patterns, and Practice begins by covering PHP's object-oriented features. It introduces key topics including class declaration, inheritance, reflection and much more. The next section is devoted to design patterns. It explains the principles that make patterns powerful. The book covers many of the classic design patterns and includes chapters on enterprise and database patterns. The last segment of the book covers the tools and practices that can help turn great code into a successful project. The section shows how to manage multiple developers and releases with git, how to manage builds and dependencies with Composer. It also explores strategies for automated testing and continuous integration. Taken together these three elements: object fundamentals, design principles, and best practice will help the reader develop elegant and rock solid systems. PHP Objects, Patterns, and Practice: Describes and demonstrates PHP's built-in object-oriented features Breaks down the principles of object-oriented design, explaining key design patterns using practical examples. Discusses the tools and practices necessary for developing, testing and deploying exemplary applications. What You'll Learn: How to work with object fundamentals: writing classes and methods, instantiating objects, creating powerful class hierarchies using inheritance. Master advanced object-oriented features, including static methods and properties, managing error conditions with exceptions, and creating abstract classes and interfaces. Learn about the new object-oriented features introduced by PHP 7 and why they matter for your code. Understand and use design principles to deploy objects and classes effectively in your projects. Learn about design patterns, their purpose, structure and the underlying principles that govern them. Discover a set of powerful patterns that you can deploy in your own projects. Learn about the tools and practices that can guarantee a successful project including unit testing; version control, build, installation and package management; and continuous integration. Who This Book is For: This book is suitable for anyone with at least a basic knowledge of PHP who wants to use its object-oriented features in their projects. Those who already know their interfaces from their abstracts may well still find it hard to use these features in their systems. They will benefit from the book's emphasis on design. They will learn how to choose and combine the participants of a system; how to read design patterns and how to use them in their code. Finally this book is for PHP coders who want to learn about the practices and tools (version control, testing, continuous integration, etc) that can make projects safe, elegant and stable. Aided by three key elements: object fundamentals, design principles, and best practices, you'll learn how to develop elegant and rock solid systems using PHP. The 5th edition of this popular book has been fully updated for PHP 7, including replacing the PEAR package manager with Composer, and new material on Vagrant and PHP standards. It provides a solid grounding in PHP's support for objects, it builds on this foundation to instill core principles of software design and then covers the tools and practices needed to develop, test and deploy robust code. PHP Objects, Patterns, and Practice begins by covering PHP's object-oriented features. It introduces key topics including class declaration, inheritance, reflection and much more. The next section is devoted to design patterns. It explains the principles that make patterns powerful. The book covers many of the classic design patterns and includes chapters on enterprise and database patterns. The last segment of the book covers the tools and practices that can help turn great code into a successful project. The section shows how to manage multiple developers and releases with git, how to manage builds and dependencies with Composer. It also explores strategies for automated testing and continuous integration. What You'll Learn Work with object fundamentals: writing classes and methods, instantiating objects, creating powerful class hierarchies using inheritance. Master advanced object-oriented features, including static methods and properties, managing error conditions with exceptions, and creating abstract classes and interfaces. Learn about the new object-oriented features introduced by PHP 7 and why they matter for your code. Understand and use design principles to deploy objects and classes effectively in your projects. Discover a set of powerful patterns that you can deploy in your own projects. Guarantee a successful project including unit testing; version control, build, installation and package management; and continuous integration. Who This Book is For This book is suitable for anyone with at least a basic knowledge of PHP who wants to use its object-oriented features in their projects. Those who already know their interfaces from their abstracts may well still find it hard to use these features in their systems. They will benefit from the book's emphasis on design. They will learn how to choose and combine the participants of a system; how to read design patterns and how to use them in their code. Finally this book is for PHP coders who want to learn about the practices and tools (version control, testing, continuous integration, etc) that can make projects safe, elegant and stable. Front Matter....Pages i-xxvii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 PHP: Design and Management....Pages 3-8 PHP and Objects....Pages 9-13 Object Basics....Pages 15-46 Advanced Features....Pages 47-97 Object Tools....Pages 99-131 Objects and Design....Pages 133-153 Front Matter....Pages 155-155 What Are Design Patterns? Why Use Them?....Pages 157-163 Some Pattern Principles....Pages 165-178 Generating Objects....Pages 179-209 Patterns for Flexible Object Programming....Pages 211-233 Performing and Representing Tasks....Pages 235-276 Enterprise Patterns....Pages 277-326 Database Patterns....Pages 327-373 Front Matter....Pages 375-375 Good (and Bad) Practice....Pages 377-383 PHP Standards....Pages 385-398 PHP Using and Creating Components with Composer....Pages 399-410 Version Control with Git....Pages 411-433 Testing with PHPUnit....Pages 435-464 Automated Build with Phing....Pages 465-486 Vagrant....Pages 487-496 Front Matter....Pages 375-375 Continuous Integration....Pages 497-523 Objects, Patterns, Practice....Pages 525-533 Appendix A: Bibliography....Pages 535-537 Appendix B: A Simple Parser....Pages 539-563 Back Matter....Pages 565-576