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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


In this chapter, you have learned about the basic architectural principles of RESTful Web Services and also how to build one on your own using the Slim framework. We have also had a look at the PSR-7 standard that allows you to write HTTP components in PHP that are portable across frameworks and become highly re-usable. Finally, you have also learned how to use PHP's new MongoDB extension for both direct access to stored collections, and also in combination with other high-level abstractions, such as the GridFS standard.

Both your newly acquired Slim knowledge and your understanding of the PSR-7 standard will benefit you in the following chapter, in which you will build a real-time chat application using the Ratchet framework - and then use PSR-7 to integrate Ratchet with the Slim framework.