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Learning PHP 7 High Performance

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Learning PHP 7 High Performance

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, providing major backward-compatibility breaks and focusing on high performance and speed. This fast-paced introduction to PHP 7 will improve your productivity and coding skills. The concepts covered will allow you, as a PHP programmer, to improve the performance standards of your applications. We will introduce you to the new features in PHP 7 and then will run through the concepts of object-oriented programming (OOP) in PHP 7. Next, we will shed some light on how to improve your PHP 7 applications' performance and database performance. Through this book, you will be able to improve the performance of your programs using the various benchmarking tools discussed. At the end, the book discusses some best practices in PHP programming to help you improve the quality of your code.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Learning PHP 7 High Performance
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Being object-oriented and reusable always


This may seem difficult for a small, single-page application in which only a few things are happening, but this is not the case. The classes are easy to handle, and the code is always clear. Also, the classes separate the application logic from the views. This make things more logical. In the earlier days when structure code was used and a bunch of functions had to be created either in the view files or in a separate file, this would have been too easy. However, when applications got more complex, it got more difficult to handle.

Always try to create loosely coupled classes to make them more reusable in other applications. Also, always perform a single task in each method of the class.