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PHP Application Development with NetBeans: Beginner's Guide

By : M A Hossain Tonu
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PHP Application Development with NetBeans: Beginner's Guide

By: M A Hossain Tonu

Overview of this book

<p>NetBeans has many features that greatly simplify PHP development, and with its several features and great flexibility, PHP developers can become overwhelmed by the IDE's options. This book provides step-by-step instructions that show you how to take control of the environment and make use of these features to make your PHP application development more efficient and productive than ever before.<br /><br />"PHP Application Development with NetBeans: Beginner's Guide" leads you through the crucial parts of PHP programming and shows you how to use the features of NetBeans that will improve your PHP development experience, through clear and easy instructions.<br /><br />The book gets you started with the development environment and tools, and takes you through working on practical projects with a clear focus. With each chapter being mission-critical, the book is a perfect companion to boost your PHP coding productivity and gain experience with even complex projects.<br /><br />The book starts with setting up the PHP development environment and introduces exciting and useful IDE features. You'll learn how to build real life PHP projects such as Facebook like Status Updater and even User Registration, Login &amp; Logout application. Also the book will introduce you with some must know development tools such as debugging &amp; testing tools, source documenter tools, and versioning tools.<br /><br />Working with the NetBeans IDE for PHP development has its own advantages, and this book reassures the purpose. This book is full of illustrations, screenshots, and clear instructions to take your PHP development to a new level and even shows you time-saving tricks and other productivity enhancements.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
PHP Application Development with NetBeans Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Time for action — creating the UserService class


We will use My\Service as the namespace for this class, and keep any constants in the class. The UserService class attributes will contain the user information, such as the user e-mail, user ID, username, or phone, and the constructor checks for logged in user and class variables loaded with the user details from the session. Also, the class will make use of PHP cookies to store the user's login data. The class will act as the login session manager. So initially, the class will check for the login data in sessions or in cookies that the user is logged into.

Note

It is recommended that you are familiar with PHP sessions and cookies for this tutorial.

So let's go through the following steps, in order to create the UserService class:

  1. 1. Create a new PHP file inside the Service directory named UserService.php, and type in the following class:

    <?php
    namespace My\Service;
    use My\Dao\UserDao;
    use My\Service\ValidatorService;
    class UserService {
    public...