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PHP 7 Programming Blueprints

By : Jose Palala, Martin Helmich
Book Image

PHP 7 Programming Blueprints

By: Jose Palala, Martin Helmich

Overview of this book

When it comes to modern web development, performance is everything. The latest version of PHP has been improvised and updated to make it easier to build for performance, improved engine execution, better memory usage, and a new and extended set of tools. If you’re a web developer, what’s not to love? This guide will show you how to make full use of PHP 7 with a range of practical projects that will not only teach you the principles, but also show you how to put them into practice. It will push and extend your skills, helping you to become a more confident and fluent PHP developer. You’ll find out how to build a social newsletter service, a simple blog with a search capability using Elasticsearch, as well as a chat application. We’ll also show you how to create a RESTful web service, a database class to manage a shopping cart on an e-commerce site and how to build an asynchronous microservice architecture. With further guidance on using reactive extensions in PHP, we’re sure that you’ll find everything you need to take full advantage of PHP 7. So dive in now!
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
PHP 7 Programming Blueprints
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
4
Build a Simple Blog with Search Capability using Elasticsearch

Summary


You learned a lot in this chapter. To summarize, we built a simple admin system to manage our marketers. After this, we also created a way for members of the newsletter to log in which leads the user to a home page.

Then we reviewed how to send an e-mail with a simple template system, which allowed a user to add his/her own menu and the content to the layout. We were also able to add Facebook social login by using the Facebook PHP SDK and its authentication process.

In the latter part of the chapter, we built a simple chat system that will send an e-mail immediately to the support e-mail address of our website. We checked out Ratchet, a PHP library to help us work with real-time messaging in PHP, and used AJAX to asynchronously send the data to another script that will do the e-mailing to the support e-mail.

We've now created an impressive newsletter app that is more than the regular, with social login features and a support chat box, and allows other newsletter marketers to manage...