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Learning PHP 7 High Performance

Learning PHP 7 High Performance

By : Iltaf (Altaf) Hussain Gul, Raul Mesa Ros
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Learning PHP 7 High Performance

Learning PHP 7 High Performance

By: Iltaf (Altaf) Hussain Gul, Raul Mesa Ros

Overview of this book

PHP is a great language for building web applications. It is essentially a server-side scripting language that is also used for general-purpose programming. PHP 7 is the latest version, providing major backward-compatibility breaks and focusing on high performance and speed. This fast-paced introduction to PHP 7 will improve your productivity and coding skills. The concepts covered will allow you, as a PHP programmer, to improve the performance standards of your applications. We will introduce you to the new features in PHP 7 and then will run through the concepts of object-oriented programming (OOP) in PHP 7. Next, we will shed some light on how to improve your PHP 7 applications' performance and database performance. Through this book, you will be able to improve the performance of your programs using the various benchmarking tools discussed. At the end, the book discusses some best practices in PHP programming to help you improve the quality of your code.
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The MVC design pattern

Model View Controller (MVC) is a design pattern widely used in different programming languages. Most PHP frameworks use this design pattern. This pattern divides the application into three layers: Model, View, and Controller. Each one of these has separate tasks, and they are all interconnected. There are different visual representations for MVC, but an overall and simple representation can be seen in the following diagram:

The MVC design pattern

Now, let's discuss each part of the MVC design pattern.

Model

The model layer is the backbone of the application and handles the data logic. Mostly, it is considered that model is responsible for CRUD operations on a database, which may or may not be true. As we mentioned previously, model is responsible for the data logic, which means that data validation operations can also be performed here. In simple words, models provide an abstraction for the data. The remaining application layers don't know or care how and from where the data comes...

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