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Mastering PHP 7

By : Branko Ajzele
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Mastering PHP 7

By: Branko Ajzele

Overview of this book

PHP is a server-side scripting language that is widely used for web development. With this book, you will get a deep understanding of the advanced programming concepts in PHP and how to apply it practically The book starts by unveiling the new features of PHP 7 and walks you through several important standards set by PHP Framework Interop Group (PHP-FIG). You’ll see, in detail, the working of all magic methods, and the importance of effective PHP OOP concepts, which will enable you to write effective PHP code. You will find out how to implement design patterns and resolve dependencies to make your code base more elegant and readable. You will also build web services alongside microservices architecture, interact with databases, and work around third-party packages to enrich applications. This book delves into the details of PHP performance optimization. You will learn about serverless architecture and the reactive programming paradigm that found its way in the PHP ecosystem. The book also explores the best ways of testing your code, debugging, tracing, profiling, and deploying your PHP application. By the end of the book, you will be able to create readable, reliable, and robust applications in PHP to meet modern day requirements in the software industry.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
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Debugging, Tracing, and Profiling

Chapter 11. Building Services

A great deal of modern applications use HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) nowadays. This stateless, application-layer protocol allows us to exchange messages between distributed systems. The message exchange process can be observed through a client-server computing model as it happens in the form of the request-response type of messages. This allows us to easily write a service, or web service to be more specific, that triggers various operations on server and feedback data back to the client.

In this chapter, we will take a closer look at this client-server relationship through the following sections:

  • Understanding the client-server relationship
  • Working with SOAP:
    • XML extensions
    • Creating server
    • Creating WSDL file
    • Creating client
  • Working with REST:
    • JSON extensions
    • Creating server
    • Creating client
  • Working with Apache Thrift (RPC):
    • Installing Apache Thrift
    • Defining service
    • Creating server
    • Creating client
  • Understanding microservices