You're reading from Test-Driven Development with PHP 8 Build extensible, reliable, and maintainable enterprise-level applications using TDD and BDD with PHP

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803230757

Length 336 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PHP

Tools

Symfony

Concepts

Server Side Web Development

Author (1):

Rainier Sarabia

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1 – Technical Background and Setup

2. Chapter 1: What Is Test-Driven Development and Why Use It in PHP? FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Understanding and Organizing the Business Requirements of Our Project

4. Chapter 3: Setting Up Our Development Environment Using Docker Containers

5. Chapter 4: Using Object-Oriented Programming in PHP

6. Part 2 – Implementing Test-Driven Development in a PHP Project

7. Chapter 5: Unit Testing

8. Chapter 6: Applying Behavior-Driven Development

9. Chapter 7: Building Solution Code with BDD and TDD

10. Chapter 8: Using TDD with SOLID Principles

11. Part 3 – Deployment Automation and Monitoring

12. Chapter 9: Continuous Integration

13. Chapter 10: Continuous Delivery

14. Chapter 11: Monitoring

15. Index

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Summary

In this chapter, we introduced Docker and used it to create and run containers. Containers are instances of packaged applications. Although we have seen that containers are packages and isolated, they can also communicate with each other. For instance, our example PHP program is running inside the server-web container and then connects to the server-mysql container that runs our MySQL server.

We’ve seen how simple it is to launch containers. We have two PHP containers running (server-web and app-phpmyadmin) and one database container (server-mysql), and we can run more containers if we need to. We will be using the base containers we have created to build our PHP project; we will continue modifying our containers and will install more libraries and tools as we go along.

In the next chapter, we will start building our base PHP application. We will try to go through the features and reasons why we decided to use PHP in the first place. We will be installing the...