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

To get the most out of this book

This is a book for PHP developers, and the main thing that you need is a way to write and run PHP code. For editing, modern development practices have very much embraced the IDE as an essential tool. Popular IDEs include PhpStorm and NetBeans. You may choose to use a more lightweight code editor, such as VSCode or Sublime Text, if you prefer.

You will need to be able to run PHP 8 code on the command line, and if you want to run the last chapter, then you will need PHP 8.1 as well. Installing PHP is beyond the scope of this book and is dependent on your specific operating system or virtualization technology.

Practically all code samples in this book (excluding very minor snippets) are included in the public Git repository available on GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/The-Art-of-Modern-PHP-8. You are strongly encouraged to clone or download all this code so that you can load it in your IDE, run it, and generally play around with it.

If you are using the digital version of this book, we advise you to type the code yourself or access the code from the book's GitHub repository (a link is available in the next section). Doing so will help you avoid any potential errors related to the copying and pasting of code.