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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

Summary


In this concluding chapter, you learned how important it is to coordinate the business with the application. For this, you saw what BDD is and how to implement it with your PHP web applications using Behat and Mink. This also gives you the ability to test the UI with web drivers, which you could not do it with unit tests and PHPUnit. Now, you can make sure that not only is your application bug-free and secure, but also that it does what the business needs it to do.

Congratulations on reaching the end of the book! You started as an inexperienced developer, but now you are able to write simple and complex websites and REST APIs with PHP and have an extensive knowledge of good test practices. You have even worked with a couple of famous PHP frameworks, so you are ready to either start a new project with them or join a team that uses one of them.

Now, you might be wondering: what do I do next? You already know the theory—well, some of it—so we would recommend that you practice a lot. There...