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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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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

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

Data structures

The first items listed in the docs are the SPL data structures:

PHP: Datastructures - Manual

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

These are designed to offer more advanced features than the simple array, such as heaps, queues, and linked lists.

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