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Mastering PHP 7

You're reading from   Mastering PHP 7 Design, configure, build, and test professional web applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785882814
Length 536 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Branko Ajzele Branko Ajzele
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The All New PHP FREE CHAPTER 2. Embracing Standards 3. Error Handling and Logging 4. Magic Behind Magic Methods 5. The Realm of CLI 6. Prominent OOP Features 7. Optimizing for High Performance 8. Going Serverless 9. Reactive Programming 10. Common Design Patterns 11. Building Services 12. Working with Databases 13. Resolving Dependencies 14. Working with Packages 15. Testing the Important Bits 16. Debugging, Tracing, and Profiling 17. Hosting, Provisioning, and Deployment

Using third-party packages

We already saw how easy it is to install the composer package via one of the following two options:

  • Executing a command such as require vendor/package:2.* vendor/package2:dev-master 
  • Adding a package link information under composer.json require, and executing composer install on console

Without knowing which package exactly we might need, we could use the https://packagist.org search tool to find it. Let's consider, for example, we are looking for a package with an e-mail sending functionality. This is where the sheer size of the Packagist repository might take us some time to find the right package. Luckily, we can use Sort by downloads or Sort by favorites to help ourselves out:

Once we click on the individual package, we get to see the available versions we can install:

Running composer require swiftmailer...

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