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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 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.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I work as a PHP developer in a local company. I wanted to take my PHP to the next level - to gain an intimate understanding of the object oriented features of the language. To find out how to develop larger systems while still keeping maintainability. I feel so lucky to have chosen this book. I am half way through it and already I know so much more about PHP, I am using interfaces, abstract classes, and the strategy pattern in my real work.
If you are like I was: pretty good at PHP with some object oriented knowledge (mostly in other languages) and you want to bring your PHP to speed this book is *perfect*.
Another thing I really like is that for the first time in a programming book the examples seem highly relevant, easily understandible, without being drawn out, long-winded, over complicated or full of caveats. I can actually read many pages at a time without my eyes glazing over!
I want to personally thank the author for such a quality title, and thoroughly recommend it to anyone wanting PHP books.
If you are like I was: pretty good at PHP with some object oriented knowledge (mostly in other languages) and you want to bring your PHP to speed this book is *perfect*.
Another thing I really like is that for the first time in a programming book the examples seem highly relevant, easily understandible, without being drawn out, long-winded, over complicated or full of caveats. I can actually read many pages at a time without my eyes glazing over!
I want to personally thank the author for such a quality title, and thoroughly recommend it to anyone wanting PHP books.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As hinted in the title, this near 500 page tome is split into three parts: objects, patterns and [best] practice.
The section on objects covers the basics and then the advanced features of object oriented facilities in PHP and tools such as namespaces, autoloading and the reflection classes along with design basics, class scope, encapsulation, polymorphism and some UML.
The patterns section is obviously inspired by "The Gang of Four" (Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides) and covers what design patterns are, enterprise patterns, database patterns and also the basic patterns such as the factory, fascade, decorator and composite patterns along with a few more. This section is far from comprehensive, but is a good start. (If Patterns do interest you, and they should, have a look at patternsforphp.com)
The last section, focuses on PEAR (including writing your own packages and setting up your own PEAR channel), phpDocumentor, unit testing with phpUnit, version control with CVS (which struck me as a bit odd - I had expected subversion to be covered either instead of or along with CVS) and setting up automated builds with phing.
While being an easy read, this is a well written, serious book and is aimed squarely at enterprise-level developers and software engineers who make their living through the development and architecture of solutions developed in PHP.
Any PHP developer wishing to improve his skills should get a copy.
The section on objects covers the basics and then the advanced features of object oriented facilities in PHP and tools such as namespaces, autoloading and the reflection classes along with design basics, class scope, encapsulation, polymorphism and some UML.
The patterns section is obviously inspired by "The Gang of Four" (Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides) and covers what design patterns are, enterprise patterns, database patterns and also the basic patterns such as the factory, fascade, decorator and composite patterns along with a few more. This section is far from comprehensive, but is a good start. (If Patterns do interest you, and they should, have a look at patternsforphp.com)
The last section, focuses on PEAR (including writing your own packages and setting up your own PEAR channel), phpDocumentor, unit testing with phpUnit, version control with CVS (which struck me as a bit odd - I had expected subversion to be covered either instead of or along with CVS) and setting up automated builds with phing.
While being an easy read, this is a well written, serious book and is aimed squarely at enterprise-level developers and software engineers who make their living through the development and architecture of solutions developed in PHP.
Any PHP developer wishing to improve his skills should get a copy.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I've bee struggling for quite some time with this book. I'm an experienced PHP programmer, but not so much in OOP, and I've been finding it extremely difficult to actually use the examples in this book in real life situations. I keep thinking that it all sounds really useful, but I've read chapters over and over again and still find it difficult to understand what's going on. Sometimes I've resorted to looking the patterns up on the Internet and then understood immediately in much simpler examples what the pattern is all about and how it works, why does this book make everything sound so complicated when really it's not. I've also spent considerable time on the Internet trying to fill in the missing pieces to get the examples to actually work where the explaination in the book falls short. Overall I think the book is worth buying, but you'll probably find yourself relying heavily on other sources to make full use of it.
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This book is a must-read for PHP developers
The book starts a bit silly. If I'm reading a book about object oriented PHP development, is because I WANT to do OOP with PHP, you don't have to sell it to me or tell me that... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Kartones
Highly recommended to any intermediate or advanced PHP developer
Matt Zandstra has chosen a very good approach for this book.
He first introduces readers to basic and advanced OOP features which are available PHP v5 and above. Read more
He first introduces readers to basic and advanced OOP features which are available PHP v5 and above. Read more
Published 21 months ago by MicE
PHP object oriented programming
There are very few books on this topic and so it's not hard for it to be one of the better ones - which it probably is. Read more
Published on 30 Oct 2009 by J. K. Groves
not bad
Very good at explaining OO PHP and the basic patterns, but when it gets to the more complex patterns everything falls apart... Read more
Published on 6 May 2009 by Faken
Fantastic book!
This book is not for the beginner but for those interested in learning or advancing their knowledge of Object Oriented Programming, Design Patterns and general good practice. Read more
Published on 11 Feb 2009 by Gareth Rodger
Its a must have
I went from Agnostic to Convert in one easily understood book. I have gone from being a competent procedural programmer who dabbled in objects, to being a staunch advocate of PHP... Read more
Published on 6 Aug 2008 by S. Mcmillan
An excellent book
This book is an excellent bible on how to write PHP software well. It explains all the things you thought you knew, but didn't. Read more
Published on 29 Jan 2008 by R. Mason
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