PHP 8 Programming Tips, Tricks and Best Practices: A practical guide to PHP 8 features, usage changes, and advanced programming techniques

by Doug Bierer, Cal Evans

Overview

Thanks to its ease of use, PHP is a highly popular programming language used on over 78% of all web servers connected to the Internet. PHP 8 Programming Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices will help you to get up-to-speed with PHP 8 quickly. The book is intended for any PHP developer who wants to become familiar with the cool new features available in PHP 8, and covers areas where developers might experience backward compatibility issues with their existing code after a PHP 8 update. The book thoroughly explores best practices, and highlights ways in which PHP 8 enforces these practices in a much more rigorous fashion than its earlier versions.
You'll start by exploring new PHP 8 features in the area of object-oriented programming (OOP), followed by enhancements at the procedural level. You'll then learn about potential backward compatible breaks and discover best practices for improving performance. The last chapter of the book gives you insights into PHP async, a revolutionary new way of programming, by providing detailed coverage and examples of asynchronous programming using the Swoole extension and Fibers.
By the end of this PHP book, you'll not only have mastered the new features, but you'll also know exactly what to watch out for when migrating older PHP applications to PHP 8.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781801079709
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	08/27/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	528
File size:	10 MB

About the Author

Doug Bierer has been hooked on computers since his first program, written on a DEC PDP-8, in 1971. In his wide-ranging career, he has been a professional contract programmer since 1978, having written applications in BASIC, PL/I, assembler, FORTH, C, C++, dBase/FoxBase/Clipper, Pascal, Perl, Java, and PHP. He deployed his first website in 1993 while living in San Francisco. He speaks four languages, has traveled extensively, and now resides in Thailand. He also spent some years doing system administration and TCP/IP networking. Some of his technical works include PHP 7 Programming Cookbook and Learning MongoDB 4.x (Packt), as well as Learning PHP and MySQL, Learning PHP Security and Learning Doctrine (O'Reilly Media).

Table of Contents

1. Introducing New PHP 8 OOP Features
2. Learning about PHP 8's Functional Additions
3. Taking Advantage of Error-Handling Enhancements
4. Making Direct C-Language Calls
5. Discovering Potential OOP Backward-Compatibility Breaks
6. Understanding PHP 8 Functional Differences
7. Avoiding Traps When Using PHP 8 Extensions
8. Learning about PHP 8's Deprecated or Removed Functionality
9. Mastering PHP 8 Best Practices
10. Improving Performance
11. Migrating Existing PHP Apps to PHP 8
12. Creating PHP 8 Applications Using Asynchronous Programming