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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
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Chapter 1: Object-Oriented PHP
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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

Summary – end of the book

It's come to the end of the book. I really hope you have enjoyed reading this book and have learned at least a couple of things. I've certainly enjoyed writing it!

It's been a long journey, and we've covered a huge amount of content. However, I'll do my best to summarize the whole book in only a few paragraphs.

In Part 1, we looked at object-oriented PHP. Chapter 1, Object-Oriented PHP was a quick introduction to object-oriented PHP and a lifeline for anyone who doesn't already know it – hopefully if you didn't, then you took a bit of time to learn it before tackling the rest of the book. Chapter 2, Inheritance and Composition, Encapsulation and Visibility, Interfaces and Concretions, looked at inheritance in particular and contrasted this with the more modern "composition" style, which results in neater, easier-to-test code. Chapter 3, Advanced OOP Features, involved checking out some of the...