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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 the importance of testing your code using unit tests. You now know how to configure PHPUnit on your application so that you can not only run your tests but also get good feedback. You got a good introduction on how to write unit tests properly, and now, it is safer for you to introduce changes in your application.

In the next chapter, we will study some existing frameworks, which you can use instead of writing your own every time you start an application. In this way, not only will you save time and effort, but also other developers will be able to join you and understand your code easily.