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

Summary

That brings us to the end of this chapter and the end of Part 1. Let's have a quick reminder of what we have covered in this part and this chapter.

We started with a very quick overview of what object-oriented programming (OOP) actually means, and we clarified this by comparing it with some other programming styles. Next, we looked at some existing frameworks and platforms that you might work with that are written in OO PHP.

Then we had a good explore of how the inheritance model works, touched on how abstract, final classes and methods can be used to allow or prohibit inheritability, and looked at a contrived example of some inheritance-based code.

In contrast to inheritance, we explored composition, building classes using instances of other classes, and trying to keep classes small and tightly focused. More modern PHP tends to favor this approach as it brings multiple benefits in legibility, testability, and flexibility.

We moved then to have a very quick...