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PHP 7 Programming Blueprints

By : Jose Palala, Martin Helmich
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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

Bootstrapping the project


As usual, we will begin by bootstrapping our project for this chapter. For using the ZeroMQ library in PHP applications, you will need the php-zmq extension that you can install via PECL. You will also need the libzmq-dev package that contains the C header files for the ZeroMQ library. You can install it via your operating system's package manager. The following commands will work on both Ubuntu and Debian Linux:

$ apt-get install libmzq-dev
$ pecl install zmq-beta

As usual, we will be using composer to manage our PHP dependencies and Docker for managing the required system libraries. As our application will consist of multiple services that run in multiple processes, we will be working with multiple composer projects and multiple Docker images.

If you are using Windows and want to run your ZeroMQ/PHP applications natively without using Docker, you can download the ZeroMQ extension from the PECL website (https://pecl.php.net/package/zmq/1.1.3/windows)

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