Overview
One-of-a-kind book on typed PHP, which is not covered elsewhere
The author is an expert web developer, PHP programmer and writer
Solves a lot of common gripes about PHP
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Discover how stronger types mean cleaner, more efficient, and optimized PHP applications. This unique book looks at typed PHP: PHP types, strings, regular expressions, and more from PHP 7 as found in standard PHP libraries, user libraries, extensions, and cross-compilers. You'll see how to create a set of reusable tools that unify and ease the scalar types of PHP.
PHP has a rich history and a dominant place on the web. It has achieved much despite language inconsistencies and difficulties. Bjarne Stroustrup once said: "There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses".
PHP is one of those languages that everybody uses, yet that's often seen as a good reason to ignore the bad parts and just get stuff done. We're all for getting stuff done, and to that end, the author has used Plain Ol' PHP for many years. It's always bugged him how procedural PHP is, in an ecosystem of OOP libraries and frameworks. So he decided to take a deeper look at building a stronger type system on top of PHP. That's the goal of this book.
What You'll Learn
- Discover the fundamentals of PHP strings, regex, underscores, native function inconsistencies, and more
- Examine the structure of PHP types including boxing, regex, namespace functions, composer autoload, null problem, optional values, and more
- Work with extensions like vagrant + phansible, provisioning, vagrant commands, SPL types, scalar objects, zephir, and more
- Design using scalar, SPL, zephir, structure types, resolving types, chaining, combining number types, PHPUnit, packaging, and more
- Plan for the future using a case study example
Who This Book Is For
Experienced web developers and PHP programmers.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Typed PHP
Book Subtitle: Stronger Types For Cleaner Code
Authors: Christopher Pitt
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2114-3
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Professional and Applied Computing (R0), Apress Access Books
Copyright Information: Christopher Pitt 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-2113-6Published: 04 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-2114-3Published: 04 August 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 76
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Web Development, Programming Techniques, Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters