Pro PHP: Patterns, Frameworks, Testing & More

Description

Taking care to focus solely on those topics that will have the most impact on experienced PHP developers, Pro PHP is written for readers seeking to take their understanding of both PHP and sound software development practices to the next level. Advanced object - oriented features, documentation, debugging, software patterns, and the Standard PHP Library are just a few of the topics covered in extensive detail.

Author and noted PHP expert Kevin McArthur also examines emerging practices and trends such as the MVC architecture as applied to PHP, with special emphasis placed upon the increasingly popular Zend Framework.

With Ajax and web services crucial to the success of today's web applications, the book concludes with several chapters covering JSON, the SOAP extension, and advanced web services topics.

If you're seeking to go beyond the basics, Pro PHP is the book for you.

CONTENTS:

Part 1 OOP and Patterns
Chapter 1 Abstract Classes, Interfaces, and Programming by Contract
Chapter 2 Static Variables, Members, and Methods
Chapter 3 Singleton and Factory Patterns
Chapter 4 Exceptions
Chapter 5 What's New in PHP 6

Part 2 Testing and Documentation
Chapter 6 Documentation and Coding Conventions
Chapter 7 Reflection API
Chapter 8 Testing, Deployment, adn Continuous Integration

Part 3 The Standard PHP Library (SPL)
Chapter 9 Introduction to SPL
Chapter 10 SPL Iterators
Chapter 11 SPL File and Directory Handling
Chapter 12 SPL Array Overloading
Chapter 13 SPL Exceptions

Part 4 The Model-View-Controller (MVC) Pattern
Chapter 14 MVC Architecture
Chapter 15 Introduction to the Zend Framework
Chapter 16 Advanced Zend Framework
Chapter 17 The Zend Framework Applied

Part 5 Web 2.0
Chapter 18 Ajax and JSON
Chapter 19 Introduction to Web Services with SOAP
Chapter 20 Advanced Web Services
Chapter 21 Certificate Authentication
Index