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The Art of Modern PHP 8

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800566156
Length 420 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Joseph Edmonds Joseph Edmonds
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

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 11: Creating Your Own Composer Package

In this chapter, we are going to continue looking at Composer. This time, we are going to try to create a small but useful package that we can reuse across all of our projects.

The first thing, of course, is to create the actual library that you want to publish. I would encourage you to think twice before publishing an empty "hello world" type package, as Packagist is a real system and there is no benefit in clogging it up with useless libraries.

That being said, let's just make a "hello world" Composer package and try to show some common scenarios. If you decide to upload your version to Packagist, please make sure to remove it once you are done!

You can see the simple "hello world" project that has been created here:

The-Art-of-Modern-PHP-8/composer-module-hello-world at main · PacktPublishing/The-Art-of-Modern-PHP-8 · GitHub

https://git.io/JRwFX

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