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Object-Oriented Programming with PHP5

By : Hasin Hayder
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Object-Oriented Programming with PHP5

By: Hasin Hayder

Overview of this book

<p>Some basic objected-oriented features were added to PHP3; with PHP5 full support for object-oriented programming was added to PHP. Object-oriented programming was basically introduced to ease the development process as well as reduce the time of development by reducing the amount of code needed. OOP can greatly improve the performance of a properly planned and designed program.</p> <p>This book covers all the general concepts of OOP then shows you how to make use of OOP in PHP5, with the aid of an ample number of examples.</p>

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Object-Oriented Programming with PHP5
Hasin Hayder
Dec, 2007 | 272 pages
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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Object-Oriented Programming with PHP5
Object-Oriented Programming with PHP5
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
Introduction
Introduction
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1
OOP vs. Procedural Programming
OOP vs. Procedural Programming
Introduction to PHP
A Little History of OOP in PHP
Procedural vs. OO Coding Style
Benefits of OOP
Dissection of an Object
Difference of OOP in PHP4 and PHP5
Some Basic OO Terms
General Coding Conventions
Summary
2
Kick-Starting OOP
Kick-Starting OOP
Let's Bake Some Objects
Using an Object
Modifiers
Constructors and Destructors
Class Constants
Extending a Class [Inheritance]
Polymorphism
Interface
Abstract Class
Static Method and Properties
Accessor Methods
Using Magic Methods to Set/Get Class Properties
Magic Methods for Overloading Class Methods
Visually Representing a Class
Summary
3
More OOP
More OOP
Class Information Functions
Exception Handling
Iterators
ArrayObject
Array to Object
Accessing Objects in Array Style
Serialization
Object Cloning
Autoloading Classes or Classes on Demand
Method Chaining
Life Cycle of an Object in PHP and Object Caching
Summary
4
Design Patterns
Design Patterns
You Might have Done this Before…
Strategy Pattern
Factory Pattern
Abstract Factory
Adapter Pattern
Singleton Pattern
Iterator Pattern
Observer Pattern
Proxy Pattern or Lazy Loading
Decorator Pattern
Active Record Pattern
Facade Pattern
Summary
5
Reflection and Unit Testing
Reflection and Unit Testing
Reflection
ReflectionMethod
ReflectionParameter
ReflectionProperty
Unit Testing
Summary
6
Standard PHP Library
Standard PHP Library
Available Objects in SPL
ArrayObject
ArrayIterator
DirectoryIterator
RecursiveDirectoryIterator
RecursiveIteratorIterator
AppendIterator
FilterIterator
LimitIterator
NoRewindIterator
SeekableIterator
RecursiveIterator
SPLFileObject
SPLFileInfo
SPLObjectStorage
Summary
7
Database in an OOP Way
Database in an OOP Way
Introduction to MySQLi
PDO
Introduction to Data Abstraction Layers
Introduction to ActiveRecord
Summary
8
Cooking XML with OOP
Cooking XML with OOP
Formation of XML
Introduction to SimpleXML
Modifying Existing Documents
Other Useful Functions
Summary
9
Building Better with MVC
Building Better with MVC
What is MVC?
Planning for the Project
Designing the Bootstrap File
Adding Database Support
Building Applications over our Framework
Summary

Index
Index

Other Useful Functions

There are some other useful functions in the DOM library. We are not going to discuss them in depth, however they are included in this section for a one line overview.

  • DomNode->setAttribute(): Helps to set the attribute of any node

  • DomNode->hasChildNodes(): Returns true if a DOM node has a child node

  • DomNode->replaceChild(): Replaces any child node with another one

  • DomNode->cloneNode(): Creates a deep copy of the current code

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