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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 chapter, you learned what MVC is, and how to write an application that follows that pattern. You also know how to use a router to route requests to controllers, Twig to write templates, and Composer to manage your dependencies and autoloader. You were introduced to dependency injection, and you even built your own implementation, even though it is a very controversial topic with many different points of view.

In the next chapter, we will go through one of the most important parts needed when writing good code and good applications: unit testing your code to get quick feedback from it.