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Modular Programming with PHP 7

By : Branko Ajzele
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Modular Programming with PHP 7

By: Branko Ajzele

Overview of this book

Modular design techniques help you build readable, manageable, reusable, and more efficient codes. PHP 7, which is a popular open source scripting language, is used to build modular functions for your software. With this book, you will gain a deep insight into the modular programming paradigm and how to achieve modularity in your PHP code. We start with a brief introduction to the new features of PHP 7, some of which open a door to new concepts used in modular development. With design patterns being at the heart of all modular PHP code, you will learn about the GoF design patterns and how to apply them. You will see how to write code that is easy to maintain and extend over time with the help of the SOLID design principles. Throughout the rest of the book, you will build different working modules of a modern web shop application using the Symfony framework, which will give you a deep understanding of modular application development using PHP 7.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Modular Programming with PHP 7
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Ecosystem Overview
Index

Liskov substitution principle


The Liskov substitution principle talks about inheritance. It specifies how we should design our classes so that client dependencies can be replaced by subclasses without the client seeing the difference, as per the definition found on Wikipedia:

"objects in a program should be replaceable with instances of their subtypes without altering the correctness of that program"

While there might be some specific functionality added to the subclass, it has to conform to the same behavior as its base class. Otherwise the Liskov principle is violated.

When it comes to PHP and sub-classing, we have to look beyond simple concrete classes and differentiate: concrete class, abstract class, and interface. Each of the three can be put in the context of a base class, while everything extending or implementing it can be looked at as a derived class.

The following is an example of LSP violation, where the derived class does not have an implementation for all methods:

interface User...