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The PHP Workshop

You're reading from The PHP Workshop Learn to build interactive applications and kickstart your career as a web developer

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838648916

Length 604 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PHP

Tools

phpList

Concepts

Programming Language

Authors (8):

Markus Gray

David Carr

Bart McLeod

Mark McCollum

Alexandru Busuioc

Jordi Martinez

M A Hossain Tonu

Vijay Joshi

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

About the Book

1. Introducing PHP FREE CHAPTER

2. Types and Operators

3. Control Statements

4. Functions

5. Object-Oriented Programming

6. Using HTTP

7. Data Persistence

8. Error Handling

9. Composer

10. Web Services

Appendix

4. Functions

Overview

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to work with built-in functions; create user-defined functions; and write anonymous functions.

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Authors (8)

Martinez

Martinez

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Busuioc

Busuioc

Alexandru Busuioc is a Zend-certified engineer with over 12 years of experience with PHP and has developed his programming skills in building robust software that enables performance, extensibility, and low resource usage by default.

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Carr

Carr

David Carr has been developing applications for the web using mostly PHP for the past 12 years. He does this for a living and loves what he does as every day there is something new and exciting to learn.

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Gray

Gray

Markus Gray is a full-stack web developer/designer with 11 years' experience, based in Philadelphia. He has diverse and deep interests in most trending technologies.

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Joshi

Joshi

Vijay Joshi is a full stack web developer having more than a decade of experience in working with PHP and JavaScript.

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McCollum

McCollum

Mark McCollum is a self-taught Zend-certified software engineer and over the last decade has been using PHP to build applications for companies ranging from small agencies to enterprise industry leaders.

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McLeod

McLeod

Bart McLeod is the author of the Zend Framework 1 to 2 Migration Guide published by php[architect]. He graduated in Fine Arts at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, The Netherlands.

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Tonu

Tonu

M A Hossain Tonu is the author of the book PHP Application Development with NetBeans: Beginner's Guide. He has graduated in computer science and engineering from the Dhaka University of Engineering and Technology (DUET) in Bangladesh.

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