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Mastering PHP 7

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

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785882814

Length 536 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PHP

Tools

Serverless

Concepts

Design

Author (1):

Branko Ajzele

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

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

Disabling debug messages

The Ubuntu Server is a popular, free, and open source Linux distribution that we can use to quickly set up a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack. The ease of installation and long-term support of Ubuntu Server makes it a popular choice among PHP developers. With a clean server installation, we can get the LAMP stack up and running just by executing the following commands:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install lamp-server^

Once these are done, visiting our external server IP address, we should see an Apache page, as shown in the following screenshot:

The HTML we are seeing in the browser originates from the /var/www/html/index.html file. After replacing index.html with index.php, we're good to play with the PHP code.

The reason for this Ubuntu Server-like introduction is to emphasize certain server defaults. Out of all configuration directives, we should never blindly accept defaults for error logging and error displaying directives...

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Authors (1)

Branko Ajzele

Branko Ajzele

Branko Ajzele is a respected and highly accomplished software developer, book author, solution specialist, consultant, and team leader. He currently works for Interactive Web Solutions Ltd (iWeb), where he holds the role of senior developer and is the director of iWeb's Croatia office. Branko holds several respected IT certifications, including Zend Certified PHP Engineer, Magento Certified Developer, Magento Certified Developer Plus, Magento Certified Solution Specialist, Magento 2 Certified Solution Specialist, Magento 2 Certified Professional Developer, to mention just a few. He was crowned the e-commerce Developer of the Year by the Digital Entrepreneur Awards in October 2014 for his excellent knowledge and expertise in e-commerce development.

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