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Mastering PHP Design Patterns

By : Junade Ali
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Mastering PHP Design Patterns

By: Junade Ali

Overview of this book

Design patterns are a clever way to solve common architectural issues that arise during software development. With an increase in demand for enhanced programming techniques and the versatile nature of PHP, a deep understanding of PHP design patterns is critical to achieve efficiency while coding. This comprehensive guide will show you how to achieve better organization structure over your code through learning common methodologies to solve architectural problems. You’ll also learn about the new functionalities that PHP 7 has to offer. Starting with a brief introduction to design patterns, you quickly dive deep into the three main architectural patterns: Creational, Behavioral, and Structural popularly known as the Gang of Four patterns. Over the course of the book, you will get a deep understanding of object creation mechanisms, advanced techniques that address issues concerned with linking objects together, and improved methods to access your code. You will also learn about Anti-Patterns and the best methodologies to adopt when building a PHP 7 application. With a concluding chapter on best practices, this book is a complete guide that will equip you to utilize design patterns in PHP 7 to achieve maximum productivity, ensuring an enhanced software development experience.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Mastering PHP Design Patterns
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Behavior-Driven Development


BDD works by implementing tests using human-readable stories.

Cucumber is a tool that implements a BDD workflow by using human-readable feature files written in plain English language, for example:

Feature: Log in to site. 
  In order to see my profile 
    As a user 
    I need to log-in to the site. 
 
Scenario: Logs in to the site 
  Given I am on "/" 
  When I follow "Log In" 
    And I fill in "Username" with "admin" 
    And I fill in "Password" with "test" 
    And I press "Log in" 
  Then I should see "Log out" 
    And I should see "My account" 

Now, this section is going to be an incredibly simple exploration of Behat to pique your curiosity. If you want to learn more, please head to http://www.behat.org.

The Behat guide contains an example of a user story for the ls command. It's quite a respectable example, so here it is:

Feature: ls 
  In order to see the directory structure 
...