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Mastering PHP Design Patterns

By : Junade Ali
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Mastering PHP Design Patterns

By: Junade Ali

Overview of this book

Design patterns are a clever way to solve common architectural issues that arise during software development. With an increase in demand for enhanced programming techniques and the versatile nature of PHP, a deep understanding of PHP design patterns is critical to achieve efficiency while coding. This comprehensive guide will show you how to achieve better organization structure over your code through learning common methodologies to solve architectural problems. You’ll also learn about the new functionalities that PHP 7 has to offer. Starting with a brief introduction to design patterns, you quickly dive deep into the three main architectural patterns: Creational, Behavioral, and Structural popularly known as the Gang of Four patterns. Over the course of the book, you will get a deep understanding of object creation mechanisms, advanced techniques that address issues concerned with linking objects together, and improved methods to access your code. You will also learn about Anti-Patterns and the best methodologies to adopt when building a PHP 7 application. With a concluding chapter on best practices, this book is a complete guide that will equip you to utilize design patterns in PHP 7 to achieve maximum productivity, ensuring an enhanced software development experience.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Mastering PHP Design Patterns
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Preface

Summary


In this chapter, we've covered some patterns that identify common communication patterns between objects.

We covered how the Observer pattern can be used to update observers on the status of a given subject. Additionally, we learned how the standard PHP library contains functionality that can help us with this.

We then went on to cover how we can implement iterators in many different ways in PHP, using various interfaces in the PHP core alongside utilizing the generator function.

We went on to discuss how the Template pattern can define an algorithm skeleton that we can dynamically adapt in a more stringent way than standard polymorphism. We covered the Chain of Responsibility pattern, which allows us link together objects in a chain to execute various functionality. The Strategy pattern taught us how we can alter behavior of code at runtime. I then introduced the basics of the Specification pattern and how advanced the functionality in it is. Finally, we revised the Scheduled Task...