PHP Objects, Patterns, and Practice

1. Front Matter

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2. PHP: Design and Management

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3. Objects

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4. Object Basics

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5. Advanced Features

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6. Object Tools

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   Pages 81-110

7. Objects and Design

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   Pages 111-130

8. What Are Design Patterns? Why Use Them?

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   Pages 131-138

9. Some Pattern Principles

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10. Generating Objects

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    Pages 153-174

11. Patterns for Flexible Object Programming

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    Pages 175-194

12. Performing and Representing Tasks

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    Pages 195-226

13. Enterprise Patterns

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    Pages 227-276

14. Database Patterns

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    Pages 277-320

15. Good (and Bad) Practice

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    Pages 321-326

16. An Introduction to PEAR and Pyrus

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    Pages 327-350

17. Generating Documentation with phpDocumentor

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    Pages 351-364

18. Version Control with Git

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19. Testing with PHPUnit

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    Pages 383-408

20. Automated Build with Phing

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    Pages 409-430

PHP Objects Patterns and Practice, Fourth Edition is revised and updated throughout. The book begins by covering PHP's object-oriented features. It introduces key topics including class declaration, inheritance, reflection and much more. These provide the fundamentals of the PHP's support for objects. It also introduces some principles of design. This edition introduces new object relevant features such as traits, reflection extension additions, callable type hinting, improvements to exception handling, and many smaller language enhancements.

The next section is devoted to design patterns. These describe common problems and their solutions. The section describes the design principles that make patterns powerful. It covers many of the classic design patterns and includes chapters on enterprise and database patterns. 

The last segment of the book covers the tools and practices that can help turn great code into a successful project. The section shows how to manage multiple developers and releases with git, how to build and install using Phing and PEAR. It also explores strategies for automated testing and build. 

In addition to discussing the latest developments in build, test, and continuous integration, this section keeps pace with best practice in version control by focusing on Git, increasingly the developer's system of choice.

Taken together these three elements: object fundamentals, design principles, and best practice will help the reader develop elegant and rock solid systems.

PHP Objects and Patterns:

• Describes and demonstrates PHP's built-in object-oriented features
• Breaks down the principles of object-oriented design, explaining key design patterns using practical examples.
• Discusses the tools and practices necessary for developing, testing and deploying exemplary applications.

Matt Zandstra has worked as a web programmer, consultant, and writer for nearly two decades. He is the author of SAMS Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours (three editions) and a contributor to DHTML Unleashed. He has written articles for Linux Magazine, Zend.com, IBM DeveloperWorks, and php|architect Magazine, among others. Matt works as a consultant advising companies on their architectures and system management, and also develops systems primarily with PHP, and Java. Matt also writes fiction.

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