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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

Types of frameworks


Now that you know quite a lot about what a framework can offer you, you are in a position to decide what kind of framework you would like to use. In order to make this decision, it might be useful to know what kinds of frameworks are available. This categorization is nothing official, just some guidelines that we offer you to make your choice easier.

Complete and robust frameworks

This type of framework comes with the whole package. It contains all the features that we discussed earlier, so it will allow you to develop very complete applications. Usually, these frameworks allow you to create applications very easily with just a few configuration files that define things such as how to connect to a database, what kind of roles you need, or whether you want to use a cache. Other than this, you will just have to add your controllers, views, and models, which saves you a lot of time.

The problem with these frameworks is the learning curve. Given all the features they contain...