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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

Using source folders and namespaces

You might have noticed the two configurations autoload and autoload-dev These allow us to configure folders of source code in our module and map them to specific base namespaces. You hopefully recall that we discussed this topic in Chapter 10, Composer For Dependencies. However, it is worth mentioning again, because you need to get these autoload sections configured correctly with the namespace for your code.

For example, this file is located in the src folder and so has the namespace defined as YourName\HelloWorld:

composer-module-hello-world/src/MessageProviderInterface.php

Repo: https://git.io/JRw54

<?php
declare(strict_types=1);
namespace YourName\HelloWorld;
interface MessageProviderInterface
{
    /**
     * Get the hello world message in the configured Language
     */
    public function getMessage(): string;
}

This test file is located in the...

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