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The Art of Modern PHP 8

By : Joseph Edmonds
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Book Image

The Art of Modern PHP 8

5 (1)
By: Joseph Edmonds

Overview of this book

PHP has come a long way since its introduction. While the language has evolved with PHP 8, there are still a lot of websites running on a version of PHP that is no longer supported. If you are a PHP developer working with legacy PHP systems and want to discover the tenants of modern PHP, this is the book for you. The Art of Modern PHP 8 walks you through the latest PHP features and language concepts. The book helps you upgrade your knowledge of PHP programming and practices. Starting with object-oriented programming (OOP) in PHP and related language features, you'll work through modern programming techniques such as inheritance, understand how it contrasts with composition, and finally look at more advanced language features. You'll learn about the MVC pattern by developing your own MVC system and advance to understanding what a DI container does by building a toy DI container. The book gives you an overview of Composer and how to use it to create reusable PHP packages. You’ll also find techniques for deploying these packages to package libraries for other developers to explore. By the end of this PHP book, you'll have equipped yourself with modern server-side programming techniques using the latest versions of PHP.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1 – PHP 8 OOP
Free Chapter
2
Chapter 1: Object-Oriented PHP
5
Section 2 – PHP Types
7
Chapter 5: Object Types, Interfaces, and Unions
9
Section 3 – Clean PHP 8 Patterns and Style
13
Section 4 – PHP 8 Composer Package Management (and PHP 8.1)
16
Section 5 – Bonus Section - PHP 8.1

Writing composer.json

You have already been introduced to the composer.json file in the previous chapter. The composer.json file includes all the crucial information that controls what dependencies and requirements your project has. However, it also includes lots of meta-information. This metadata is used when your package is published on Packagist.

You don't need to worry about this too much while you are developing, but when you want to publish on Packagist, it is beneficial to ensure that your metadata is in good order.

Let's take a look at the composer.json file for this project:

composer-module-hello-world/composer.json

Repo: https://git.io/JRw58

{
  "name": "yourname/hello-world",
  "description": "A hello world package",
  "keywords": [
    "hello world"
  ],
  "license": "GPL-3.0-or-later",
  ...