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PHP 7 Programming Cookbook

By : Doug Bierer
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PHP 7 Programming Cookbook

By: Doug Bierer

Overview of this book

PHP 7 comes with a myriad of new features and great tools to optimize your code and make your code perform faster than in previous versions. Most importantly, it allows you to maintain high traffic on your websites with low-cost hardware and servers through a multithreading web server. This book demonstrates intermediate to advanced PHP techniques with a focus on PHP 7. Each recipe is designed to solve practical, real-world problems faced by PHP developers like yourself every day. We also cover new ways of writing PHP code made possible only in version 7. In addition, we discuss backward-compatibility breaks and give you plenty of guidance on when and where PHP 5 code needs to be changed to produce the correct results when running under PHP 7. This book also incorporates the latest PHP 7.x features. By the end of the book, you will be equipped with the tools and skills required to deliver efficient applications for your websites and enterprises.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
PHP 7 Programming Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using middleware to cross languages


Except in cases where you are trying to communicate between different versions of PHP, PSR-7 middleware will be of minimal use. Recall what the acronym stands for: PHP Standards Recommendations. Accordingly, if you need to make a request to an application written in another language, treat it as you would any other web service HTTP request.

How to do it...

  1. In the case of PHP 4, you actually have a chance in that there is limited support for object-oriented programming. Accordingly, the best approach would be to downgrade the basic PSR-7 classes described in the first three recipes. There is not enough space to cover all the changes, but we present a potential PHP 4 version of Application\MiddleWare\ServerRequest. The first thing to note is that there are no namespaces! Accordingly, we use a classname with underscores, _, in place of namespace separators:

    class Application_MiddleWare_ServerRequest
    extends Application_MiddleWare_Request
    implements Psr_Http_Message_ServerRequestInterface...