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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

Summary


Throughout this chapter, we took a quick look at Git and Composer and how we can integrate and distribute our modules via GitHub and Packagist as their respectful services. Publishing packages under Packagist has been shown to be a pretty straightforward and easy process. All it took was a public link to the version control system repository and a composer.json file definition within the root of our project.

Writing our own applications from ground up does not necessarily mean we need to use the Git submodules or the Composer packages, as presented in this chapter. The Symfony application, on its own, is structured modularly via bundles. The version control system, when used on a Symfony project, is supposed to save only our code, which means all of the Symfony libraries and other dependencies are to be pulled in via Composer when the project is being set. The examples shown in this chapter merely show what can be accomplished if we are after writing modular components that are to...