PHP Objects, Patterns, and Practice - Softcover

Zandstra, Matt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1590599098 ISBN 13: 9781590599099

Publisher: Apress, 2010

Synopsis

Backed by a tireless development community, PHP has been a model of language evolution over its 10+ year history. Borne from a contract developer's pet project, these days you'll find PHP powering many of the world's largest web sites, including Yahoo!, Digg, EA Games, and Lycos. PHP Objects, Patterns, and Practice, Second Edition shows you how to meld the power of PHP with the sound enterprise development techniques embraced by professional programmers. Going well beyond the basics of object-oriented development, you'll learn about advanced topics such as working with static methods and properties, abstract classes, interfaces, design patterns, exception handling, and more. You'll also be exposed to key tools such as PEAR, CVS, Phing, and phpDocumentor. What you'll learn* Write solid, maintainable code by embracing object-oriented techniques and design patterns.* Create detailed, versatile documentation using the powerful phpDocumentor automated documentation system. * Gain new flexibility during the development process by managing your code within a CVS repository and using the Phing build system. * Capitalize upon the quality code of others by using the PEAR package management solution. Who is this book for? PHP developers seeking to embrace sound development techniques such as object-orientation, design patterns, testing, and documentation

About this title

About the Author

Matt Zandstra has worked as a Web programmer, consultant and writer for a decade. He has been an object evangelist for most of that time. Matt is the author of SAMS Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours (three editions), and contributed to DHTML Unleashed. He has written articles for Linux Magazine and Zend.com. Matt works primarily with PHP, Perl and Java, building online applications. He is an engineer at Yahoo! in London.

Matt lives in Brighton with his wife Louise, and two children, Holly and Jake. Because it has been so long since he has had any spare time he only distantly recollects that he runs regularly to offset the effects of his liking for pubs and cafes, and for sitting around reading and writing fiction. Learn more on Matt's website, getInstance.

Edition details

• Publisher: Apress
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1590599098
• ISBN 13: 9781590599099
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 512