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Learning PHP 7

By : Antonio L Zapata (GBP)
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Learning PHP 7

By: Antonio L Zapata (GBP)

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 with a host of new features, and it provides major backwards-compatibility breaks. This book begins with the fundamentals of PHP programming by covering the basic concepts such as variables, functions, class, and objects. You will set up PHP server on your machine and learn to read and write procedural PHP code. After getting an understanding of OOP as a paradigm, you will execute MySQL queries on your database. Moving on, you will find out how to use MVC to create applications from scratch and add tests. Then, you will build REST APIs and perform behavioral tests on your applications. By the end of the book, you will have the skills required to read and write files, debug, test, and work with MySQL.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Learning PHP 7
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, you learned how important it is to know some of the most important frameworks. You also learned the basics of two famous ones: Laravel and Silex. Now, you are ready to either use your framework or to use these two for your next application. With this, you also have the capacity to take any other similar framework and understand it easily.

In the next chapter, we will study what REST APIs are and how to write one with Laravel. This will expand your set of skills and give you more flexibility for when you need to decide which approach to take when designing and writing applications.