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  • Paperback: 487 pages
  • Publisher: APRESS; 2nd Revised edition edition (1 Jan 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1590599098
  • ISBN-13: 978-1590599099
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 17.5 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 34,947 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Its a must have, 6 Aug 2008
By S. Mcmillan "Geek" (UK) - See all my reviews
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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 objects and patterns.

If you don't quite get what the OOP fuss is about, read this book and you won't look back. You'll start every sentence with "code to an interface, not an implementation"
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent book, 3 Dec 2008
By Gabe (Bournemouth, UK) - See all my reviews
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.
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14 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book, finally an OOP book for programmers., 30 April 2008
By Kirk St Moritz "Kirk" (UK) - See all my reviews
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My programming background stems from procedural languages (xBase, clipper etc) popular in the late eighties. With Clipper 5 I had danced briefly with objects but likened them purely to a prettier way of dealing with big data structures.

Hey, I get a mention in the first chapter!

Well, not me personally, but my type of programmer. Better yet, it wasn't preceeded by the word "dinosaur".

Instead, I was told, and then shown, how OOP is far more than just a tidy way of handling arrays. And I was shown this with nice, short, stubby examples.

Best of all, the author recognised that OOP may not suit all requirements, and indeed, decent systems can be written without it. This is by no means a "Yah boo" text unlike a lot of the online OOP guides you may have read.

I haven't finished this book yet, but already it has far exceeded my expectations. I am an experienced programmer, but pretty much new to proper oop, so was looking for a book which would start with the oop basics but then do some real serious grown-up stuff with it. I have not been let down.

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Very good at explaining OO PHP and the basic patterns, but when it gets to the more complex patterns everything falls apart... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars 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 5 months ago by Gareth Rodger

5.0 out of 5 stars Every php developer should get a copy
As hinted in the title, this near 500 page tome is split into three parts: objects, patterns and [best] practice. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Ken Guest

5.0 out of 5 stars 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
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