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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

Implementation


We start of by creating a new module called Foggyline\CustomerBundle. We do so with the help of console, by running the command as follows:

php bin/console generate:bundle --namespace=Foggyline/CustomerBundle

The command triggers an interactive process asking us several questions along the way, as shown in the following screenshot:

Once done, the following structure is generated for us:

If we now take a look at the app/AppKernel.php file, we would see the following line under the registerBundles method:

new Foggyline\CustomerBundle\FoggylineCustomerBundle()

Similarly, the app/config/routing.yml directory has the following route definition added to it:

foggyline_customer:
  resource: "@FoggylineCustomerBundle/Resources/config/routing.xml"
  prefix:   /

Here we need to change prefix: / into prefix: /customer/, so we don't collide with core module routes. Leaving it as prefix: / would simply overrun our core AppBundle and output Hello World! from the src/Foggyline/CustomerBundle/Resources...