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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

Wireframing


With user stories laid out, let's shift our focus to actual wireframing. For reasons we will get into later on, our wireframing efforts will be focused around the customer perspective.

There are numerous wireframing tools out there, both free and commercial. Some commercial tools like https://ninjamock.com, which we will use for our examples, still provide a free plan. This can be very handy for personal projects, as it saves us a lot of time.

The starting point of every web application is its home page. The following wireframe illustrates our web shop app's homepage:

Here we can see a few sections determining the page structure. The header is comprised of a logo, category menu, and user menu. The requirements don't say anything about category structure, and we are building a simple web shop app, so we are going to stick to a flat category structure, without any sub-categories. The user menu will initially show Register and Login links, until the user is actually logged in, in which...