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The Art of Modern PHP 8

You're reading from   The Art of Modern PHP 8 Learn how to write modern, performant, and enterprise-ready code with the latest PHP features and practices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800566156
Length 420 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Joseph Edmonds Joseph Edmonds
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1 – PHP 8 OOP
2. Chapter 1: Object-Oriented PHP FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Inheritance and Composition, Encapsulation and Visibility, Interfaces and Concretions 4. Chapter 3: Advanced OOP Features 5. Section 2 – PHP Types
6. Chapter 4: Scalar, Arrays, and Special Types 7. Chapter 5: Object Types, Interfaces, and Unions 8. Chapter 6: Parameter, Property, and Return Types 9. Section 3 – Clean PHP 8 Patterns and Style
10. Chapter 7: Design Patterns and Clean Code 11. Chapter 8: Model, View, Controller (MVC) Example 12. Chapter 9: Dependency Injection Example 13. Section 4 – PHP 8 Composer Package Management (and PHP 8.1)
14. Chapter 10: Composer For Dependencies 15. Chapter 11: Creating Your Own Composer Package 16. Section 5 – Bonus Section - PHP 8.1
17. Chapter 12: The Awesomeness That Is 8.1 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Version constraints

When we require a package in our composer.json file, we also have to define a "version constraint." This instructs Composer on exactly what versions are acceptable to be installed.

The most flexible option is to specify * as the version constraint, which means "anything." It will still respect the configured minimum stability but beyond that, anything goes. This is generally a terrible idea as things could change wildly from one version to the next when you update packages, breaking your application in weird and wonderful ways.

Instead, we always want to specify some kind of constraint. When we call composer require, Composer will calculate a constraint for us. You can see these in the composer.json file we created in MyFirstProject:

    "monolog/monolog": "^2.2",
    "php-di/php-di": "^6.3"

What Composer has used here is what is called the "Caret...

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