PHP 7 Programming Cookbook: Over 80 recipes that will take your PHP 7 web development skills to the next level!

Bierer, Doug

ISBN 10: 1785883445 / ISBN 13: 9781785883446

Published by Packt Publishing, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: PHP 7 Programming Cookbook: Over 80 recipes that will take your PHP 7 web development skills to the next level!
• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1785883445
• ISBN 13: 9781785883446
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fine

About this title

Synopsis

Over 80 recipes that will take your PHP 7 web development skills to the next level!

Key Features:

• This is the most up-to-date book in the market on PHP
• It covers the new features of version 7.x, best practices for server-side programming, and MVC frameworks
• The recipe-based approach will allow you to explore the unique capabilities that PHP offers to web programmers

Book Description:

PHP 7 comes with a myriad of new features and great tools to optimize your code and make your code perform faster than in previous versions. Most importantly, it allows you to maintain high traffic on your websites with low-cost hardware and servers through a multithreading web server.

This book demonstrates intermediate to advanced PHP techniques with a focus on PHP 7. Each recipe is designed to solve practical, real-world problems faced by PHP developers like yourself every day. We also cover new ways of writing PHP code made possible only in version 7. In addition, we discuss backward-compatibility breaks and give you plenty of guidance on when and where PHP 5 code needs to be changed to produce the correct results when running under PHP 7. This book also incorporates the latest PHP 7.x features.

By the end of the book, you will be equipped with the tools and skills required to deliver efficient applications for your websites and enterprises.

What You Will Learn:

• Use advanced PHP 7 features, such as the Abstract Syntax Tree, Uniform Variable Syntax, Scalar Type Hints, Generator Delegation, Anonymous Classes, and the Context Sensitive Lexer
• Discover where and when PHP 5 code needs to be re-written to avoid backwards-compatibility breaks
• Improve the overall application security and error handling by taking advantage of classes that implement the new throwable interface
• Solve practical real-world programming problems using PHP 7
• Develop middle-wareclasses that allow PHP developers to gluedifferent open source libraries together seamlessly
• Define and Implement PSR-7 classes
• Create custom middleware using PSR-7 compliant classes
• Test and debug your code, and get to know the best practices

Who this book is for:

If you are an aspiring web developer, mobile developer, or backend programmer, then this book is for you as it will take your PHP programming skills to next level. Basic knowledge of PHP programming is assumed.

About the Author

Doug Bierer wrote his first program on a PDP-8 with 4K of RAM. Over a lengthy career, Doug has written applications in assembler, BASIC, C, C++, FORTH, prolog, Java, Perl, and PHP. His customer base ranges from Fortune 500 corporations to state and US Federal agencies, all the way down to small business. In addition to software, Doug has developed digital circuits, set up and managed large scale networks, and performed system administration. He first started using PHP in 1999, teaches PHP courses for Zend Technologies / Rogue Wave Software, and is certified in PHP 5.1, 5.3, 5.5, as well as Zend Framework 1 and 2. He also teaches the Zend PHP 7 JumpStart course.