PHP Objects, Patterns and Practice

by Matt Zandstra

Overview

This book takes you beyond the PHP basics to the enterprise development practices used by professional programmers. Updated for PHP 5.3 with new sections on closures, namespaces, and continuous integration, this edition will teach you about object features such as abstract classes, reflection, interfaces, and error handling. You’ll also discover object tools to help you learn more about your classes, objects, and methods.

Then you’ll move into design patterns and the principles that make patterns powerful. You’ll learn both classic design patterns and enterprise and database patterns with easy-to-follow examples.

Finally, you’ll discover how to put it all into practice to help turn great code into successful projects. You’ll learn how to manage multiple developers with Subversion, and how to build and install using Phing and PEAR. You’ll also learn strategies for automated testing and building, including continuous integration.

Taken together, these three elements—object fundamentals, design principles, and best practices—will help you develop elegant and rock-solid systems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781430229254
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	06/01/2010
Series:	Expert's Voice in Open Source
Edition description:	3rd ed.
Pages:	536
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Matt Zandstra has worked as a web programmer, consultant, and writer for nearly two decades. He is the author of SAMS Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours (three editions) and a contributor to DHTML Unleashed. He has written articles for Linux Magazine, Zend.com, IBM DeveloperWorks, and php|architect Magazine, among others. Matt works as a consultant advising companies on their architectures and system management, and also develops systems primarily with PHP, and Java. Matt also writes fiction.

Table of Contents

• PHP: Design and Management
• PHP and Objects
• Object Basics
• Advanced Features
• Object Tools
• Objects and Design
• What Are Design Patterns? Why Use Them?
• Some Pattern Principles
• Generating Objects
• Patterns for Flexible Object Programming
• Performing and Representing Tasks
• Enterprise Patterns
• Database Patterns
• Good (and Bad) Practice
• An Introduction to PEAR and Pyrus
• Generating Documentation with phpDocumentor
• Version Control with Subversion
• Testing with PHPUnit
• Automated Build with Phing
• Continuous Integration
• Objects, Patterns, Practice