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

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800566156

Length 420 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PHP

Tools

MySQL

Concepts

Server Side Web Development

Author (1):

Joseph Edmonds

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

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

Design patterns

Now we have had a look at clean code, the next thing to learn about in this chapter is design patterns. As explained previously, these are tried and true code patterns that you can use to solve common problems. They provide well-used structure and nomenclature that makes your code clear in terms of what it does and also provides you with a scaffold to build upon when solving common problems.

Design patterns are generally grouped into four categories. The following sections detail the four categories, with some examples of each. Rather than trying to provide full code examples for each pattern (which would take up way too many pages), I am simply going to describe the pattern and then link to examples within open source code bases. For Model, View, Controller (MVC) and Dependency Injection (DI), we have a chapter dedicated to each.