PHP Objects, Patterns, and Practice

by Matt Zandstra

Overview

PHP Objects Patterns and Practice, Fourth Edition is revised and updated throughout. The book begins by covering PHP's object-oriented features. It introduces key topics including class declaration, inheritance, reflection and much more. These provide the fundamentals of the PHP's support for objects. It also introduces some principles of design. This edition introduces new object relevant features such as traits, reflection extension additions, callable type hinting, improvements to exception handling, and many smaller language enhancements.

The next section is devoted to design patterns. These describe common problems and their solutions. The section describes the design principles that make patterns powerful. It 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 build and install using Phing and PEAR. It also explores strategies for automated testing and build.

In addition to discussing the latest developments in build, test, and continuous integration, this section keeps pace with best practice in version control by focusing on Git, increasingly the developer's system of choice.

Taken together these three elements: object fundamentals, design principles, and best practice will help the reader develop elegant and rock solid systems.

PHP Objects and Patterns:

• 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781430260325
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	01/21/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	488
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Matt Zandstra has worked as a Web programmer, consultant and writer for a decade. He has been an object evangelist for most of that time. Matt is the author of SAMS Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours (three editions), and contributed to DHTML Unleashed. He has written articles for Linux Magazine and Zend.com. Matt works primarily with PHP, Perl and Java, building online applications. He is an engineer at Yahoo! in London.

Matt lives in Brighton with his wife Louise, and two children, Holly and Jake. Because it has been so long since he has had any spare time he only distantly recollects that he runs regularly to offset the effects of his liking for pubs and cafes, and for sitting around reading and writing fiction. Learn more on Matt's website, www.getInstance.com.

Table of Contents

1. PHP: Design and Management
2. PHP and Objects
3. Object Basics
4. Advanced Features
5. Object Tools
6. Objects and Design
7. What Are Design Patterns? Why Use Them?
8. Some Pattern Principles
9. Generating Objects
10. Patterns for Flexible Object Programming
11. Performing and Representing Tasks
12. Enterprise Patterns
13. Database Patterns
14. Good (and Bad) Practice
15. An Introduction to PEAR and Pyrus
16. Generating Documentation with phpDocumentor
17. Version Control
18. Testing with PHPUnit
19. Automated Build with Phing
20. Continuous Integration
21. Objects, Patterns, and Practice
22. App A: Bibliography
23. App B: A Simple Parser

Editorial Reviews

PHP increasingly offers developers strong object-oriented features. Using these features, PHP developers are leveraging powerful Java/C++-style design patterns, and creating utilities to streamline the entire development process. Matt Zandstra's PHP Objects, Patterns, and Practice illuminates all of this, helping you leverage PHP in complex, mission-critical environments.

Zandstra goes beyond teaching PHP 5's object features to help you think about objects more effectively, and make better design decisions. (He also previews PHP 6's long-awaited namespaces, and shows how to achieve many of the same benefits with PHP 5.)

Next, he migrates the programming industry's key design patterns to PHP: singleton, factory method, decorator, façade, observer, and many more. Finally, in an indispensable "practice" section, he turns to the challenges of building large-scale PHP software -- and the excellent tools now available to help teams document, manage, test, build, and deploy their code. Bill Camarda, from the February 2008 Read Only