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PHP 8 Objects, Patterns, and Practice: Mastering OO Enhancements, Design Patterns, and Essential Development Tools 6th ed. Edition

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Learn how to develop elegant and rock-solid systems using PHP, aided by three key elements: object fundamentals, design principles, and best practices. The 6th edition of this popular book has been fully updated for PHP 8, including attributes, constructor property promotion, new argument and return pseudo-types, and more. It also covers many features new since the last edition including typed properties, the null coalescing operator, and void return types. This book provides a solid grounding in PHP's support for objects, it builds on this foundation to instill core principles of software design and then covers the tools and practices needed to develop, test, and deploy robust code.

PHP 8 Objects, Patterns, and Practice begins by covering PHP's object-oriented features. It introduces key topics including class declarations, inheritance, and reflection. The next section is devoted to design patterns. It explains the principles that make patterns powerful. You’ll cover many of the classic design patterns including 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, and how to manage builds and dependencies with Composer. It also explores strategies for automated testing and continuous integration.

After reading and using this book, you will have mastered object-oriented enhancements, design patterns, and the essential development tools available for PHP 8.

What You Will Learn

  • Work with object fundamentals: write classes and methods, instantiate objects, and create powerful class hierarchies using inheritance
Master advanced object-oriented features, including static methods and properties, managing error conditions with exceptions, and creating abstract classes and interfaces
  • Understand and use design principles to deploy objects and classes effectively in your projects
  • Discover a set of powerful patterns that you can implement in your own projects
  • Guarantee a successful project including unit testing; version control and build, installation, and package management; and continuous integration

Who This Book Is For

Anyone with at least a basic knowledge of PHP who wants to use its object-oriented features in their projects. It is also for PHP coders who want to learn about the practices and tools (version control, testing, continuous integration, etc) that can make projects safe, elegant and stable.

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    5. Publication date
      April 3, 2021
    6. Language
      English
    7. Dimensions
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      858 pages
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    Learn how to develop elegant and rock-solid systems using PHP, aided by three key elements: object fundamentals, design principles, and best practices. The 6th edition of this popular book has been fully updated for PHP 8, including attributes, constructor property promotion, new argument and return pseudo-types, and more. It also covers many features new since the last edition including typed properties, the null coalescing operator, and void return types. This book provides a solid grounding in PHP's support for objects, it builds on this foundation to instill core principles of software design and then covers the tools and practices needed to develop, test, and deploy robust code.

    PHP 8 Objects, Patterns, and Practice begins by covering PHP's object-oriented features. It introduces key topics including class declarations, inheritance, and reflection. The next section is devoted to design patterns. It explains the principles that make patterns powerful. You’ll cover many of the classic design patterns including 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, and how to manage builds and dependencies with Composer. It also explores strategies for automated testing and continuous integration.

    After reading and using this book, you will have mastered object-oriented enhancements, design patterns, and the essential development tools available for PHP 8.

    You will:

    • Work with object fundamentals: write classes and methods, instantiate objects, and create powerful class hierarchies using inheritance
    • Master advanced object-oriented features, including static methods and properties, managing error conditions with exceptions, and creating abstract classes and interfaces
    • Understand and use design principles to deploy objects and classes effectively in your projects
    • Discover a set of powerful patterns that you can implement in your own projects
    • Guarantee a successful project including unit testing; version control and build, installation, and package management; and continuous integration

    About the Author

    Matt Zandstra has worked as a web programmer, consultant, and writer for over two decades. He is the author of SAMS Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours (three editions) and is a contributor to DHTML Unleashed. He has written articles for Linux Magazine, Zend, IBM DeveloperWorks, and php|architect Magazine, among others. Matt was a senior developer/tech lead at Yahoo and API tech lead at LoveCrafts. 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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    • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Apress; 6th ed. edition (April 3, 2021)
    • Language ‏ : ‎ English
    • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 858 pages
    • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1484267907
    • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1484267905
    • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.23 pounds
    • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.75 x 1.75 x 9.75 inches
    • Customer Reviews:
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    “Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.” ― Zig Ziglar. I have the book that covers the 7.0 version, and today I got the new edition that covers 8.0. The good thing about reading this book a second time is that with five years of experience in the industry and have worked on multiple projects, some legacy and others with modern architecture. Now I appreciate the clarity and the wisdom that this author has distilled in these pages.This is a book for mid to advance PHP developers; I wouldn't recommend this to a person trying to learn to code; OOP is to much of a complex subject to grasp when you are starting. But if you have worked with objects in the past, you are a library maintainer, or wants to gain deeper insight into best practices and go to your next level as a software engineer; then this book is a must to add to your collection.Definitely worth every penny.
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    Jose Garcia
    5.0 out of 5 stars More than 200 pages of new content
    Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2022
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    “Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.” ― Zig Ziglar.

    I have the book that covers the 7.0 version, and today I got the new edition that covers 8.0. The good thing about reading this book a second time is that with five years of experience in the industry and have worked on multiple projects, some legacy and others with modern architecture. Now I appreciate the clarity and the wisdom that this author has distilled in these pages.

    This is a book for mid to advance PHP developers; I wouldn't recommend this to a person trying to learn to code; OOP is to much of a complex subject to grasp when you are starting. But if you have worked with objects in the past, you are a library maintainer, or wants to gain deeper insight into best practices and go to your next level as a software engineer; then this book is a must to add to your collection.

    Definitely worth every penny.
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    Jose Garcia
    5.0 out of 5 stars More than 200 pages of new content
    Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2022
    “Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.” ― Zig Ziglar.

    I have the book that covers the 7.0 version, and today I got the new edition that covers 8.0. The good thing about reading this book a second time is that with five years of experience in the industry and have worked on multiple projects, some legacy and others with modern architecture. Now I appreciate the clarity and the wisdom that this author has distilled in these pages.

    This is a book for mid to advance PHP developers; I wouldn't recommend this to a person trying to learn to code; OOP is to much of a complex subject to grasp when you are starting. But if you have worked with objects in the past, you are a library maintainer, or wants to gain deeper insight into best practices and go to your next level as a software engineer; then this book is a must to add to your collection.

    Definitely worth every penny.
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    John
    5.0 out of 5 stars Not famous like SICP or GOF, but one of the best programming books out there
    Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2022
    I've read countless (hundreds?) of books on computing and programming over a lifetime of programming. I also spent years teaching computers.

    This is one of the best. It's well organized, thorough, and really teaches you. If you want to learn PHP, OO, or both, or maybe just to brush up, this is a great choice.
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    Joby65
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Author and wonderfully written
    Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2021
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    Author Matt Zandstra does an excellent job laying out the fundamentals and has references to other texts and helpful materials. I had already read his 1st edition many years ago, and I purchased this edition because I was curious in seeing his approach to the new edition with PHP 8. I was not disappointed!!!
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    Gaetane Borgella
    5.0 out of 5 stars PHP 8
    Reviewed in Canada on March 21, 2022
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    Excellent ouvrage!
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    Sergio
    5.0 out of 5 stars Se ti piace l'informatica
    Reviewed in Italy on April 29, 2024
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    Non puoi non averlo
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    EnglishManInBerlin
    5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant Book
    Reviewed in Germany on January 26, 2024
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    I've bought several version of this book over the years.. its by far the best book for learning OOPHP.

    It really has something for PHP engineers of all levels, its part of the welcome package i give new engineers when they start now.
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    Gerard
    5.0 out of 5 stars Muy completo y actualizado
    Reviewed in Spain on January 25, 2024
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    Muy buen manual, siempre y cuando te apañes con el inglés, por supuesto. Asume que tienes algunos conocimientos básicos de programación y PHP y a partir de ahí desarrolla todo el tema de programación orientada a objetos con haciendo énfasis en las buenas prácticas de diseño. Aún voy por la mitad, así que no puedo comentar todo lo que cubre, pero por lo que he visto y lo que figura en el índice es muy completo. Recomendable si te interesa dominar a fondo este lenguaje.
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    Slobodan Maric
    4.0 out of 5 stars Not for beginners
    Reviewed in Germany on October 30, 2021
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    Difficult to read without book holder, kindle version would be better.
    Examples could be longer.
    Some demo app to build while progressing the book would make reading much more interesting.
    Overall: solid book
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