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Learning PHP 7

By : Antonio L Zapata (GBP)
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Learning PHP 7

By: Antonio L Zapata (GBP)

Overview of this book

PHP is a great language for building web applications. It is essentially a server-side scripting language that is also used for general purpose programming. PHP 7 is the latest version with a host of new features, and it provides major backwards-compatibility breaks. This book begins with the fundamentals of PHP programming by covering the basic concepts such as variables, functions, class, and objects. You will set up PHP server on your machine and learn to read and write procedural PHP code. After getting an understanding of OOP as a paradigm, you will execute MySQL queries on your database. Moving on, you will find out how to use MVC to create applications from scratch and add tests. Then, you will build REST APIs and perform behavioral tests on your applications. By the end of the book, you will have the skills required to read and write files, debug, test, and work with MySQL.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Learning PHP 7
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Working with requests


As you might recall from previous chapters, the main purpose of a web application is to process HTTP requests coming from the client and return a response. If that is the main goal of your application, managing requests and responses should be an important part of your code.

PHP is a language that can be used for scripts, but its main usage is in web applications. Due to this, the language comes ready with a lot of helpers for managing requests and responses. Still, the native way is not ideal, and as good OOP developers, we should come up with a set of classes that help with that. The main elements for this small project—still inside your application—are the request and the router. Let's start!

The request object

As we start our mini framework, we need to change our directory structure a bit. We will create the src/Core directory for all the classes related to the framework. As the configuration reader from the previous chapters is also part of the framework (rather than...