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

SPL – the Standard PHP Library

PHP ships with something called the SPL. Generally, this includes a set of built-in classes, interfaces, and functions that provide foundational features and functionality that you can then use in your own code. The SPL is designed to offer solutions to common problems and is guaranteed to be present in any PHP installation.

Probably the single most utilized SPL feature is spl_autoload_register, which we will learn more about later in the book.

As with anything PHP, your first point of reference should be to read the official documentation, which for SPL is located at:

PHP: SPL - Manual

https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.spl.php