PHP in Action: Objects, Design, Agility

To keep programming productive and enjoyable, state-of-the-art practices andprinciples are essential. Object-oriented programming and design help managecomplexity by keeping components cleanly separated. Unit testing helps preventendless, exhausting debugging sessions. Refactoring keeps code supple andreadable. PHP offers all this-and more.

PHP in Action shows you how to apply PHP techniques and principles to all themost common challenges of web programming, including:

• Web presentation and templates
• User interaction including the Model-View-Contoller architecture
• Input validation and form handling
• Database connection and querying and abstraction
• Object persistence

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Dagfinn Reiersol has been designing and developing web applications, web content mining software, web programming tools, and text analysis programs, mostly in PHP, since 1997. He also has a long history as a technical writer of software manuals. He lives in Oslo, Norway.