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

Chapter 3: Advanced OOP Features

In this third chapter, we're going to look at some of the more advanced object-oriented language features within PHP 8.

First, we're going to explore the Standard PHP Library – SPL for short. This is a collection of built-in classes, interfaces, and functions that provide some highly useful functionality and are guaranteed to be available in your PHP installation.

Next up, we're going to take a look at exceptions and error handling in general. We're going to learn what exceptions are and how we can use them to provide safety and easier debugging for our projects.

Finally, we're going to dip our toes into the mystical and powerful world of meta-programming. This is going to introduce you to the awesome power of reflection, and you will learn how it can empower you to regard code as data and thereby increase your power as a programmer dramatically.

This chapter will cover the following main topics: