Product DescriptionTo keep programming productive and enjoyable, state-of-the-art practices and principles are essential. Object-oriented programming and design help manage complexity by keeping components cleanly separated. Unit testing helps prevent endless, exhausting debugging sessions. Refactoring keeps code supple and readable. PHP offers all this-and more.
This book shows you how to apply PHP techniques and principles to all the most 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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Super
Very good book for intermediate or advanced php developer, I'm very happy with the book.
Ruslan
Rating: - PHP In Action
This book is geared toward the intermediate PHP developer who wants to bring in aspects of OOP, Testing and Refactoring to help improve the quality of the code they write. It is split into four parts; Basic Tools and Concepts, Testing and Refactoring, Building the Web Interface, and Databases and Infrastructure.
In addition to PHP, I have decent amount of experience with Java and Java web frameworks such as Struts. So as I worked through this book much of the content was familiar to ... Read More
Rating: - being a good PHP book isn't saying much
The problem with PHP experts is that they're just beginning to catch up with experts in other OO languages. The author purports to compare and contrast Java and PHP in early chapters, but fails to point out a significant difference, although he uses such examples over and over: that object constructors that take no arguments may omit the (empty) parentheses in PHP, but not in Java. The author's explanations of certain design patterns are sorely lacking; for instance regarding the Strategy pattern, ... Read More
Rating: - High quality -- excellent
This is definitely the best book I've read in the programming world. There are some very good PHP books, but this is so far the best. Why? I have a MS in English Lit and some of the books I have read have left me furious over the poor quality of the editing and general sloppyness. Not so here! Amusing at times but not self-involved. Appropriate for an adult. A clear intent to educate that succeeds!
Good job.
PS - Almost done and no typos!
Rating: - Solid book on PHP best practices
By far my favorite PHP book and the one that I recommend to everyone who asks me about improving their PHP knowledge.
The book not only covers what you should do, but it goes into explaining why and how in an easy to understand manner. Highly recommend to anyone who understands how to script PHP but now wants to learn how to become a PHP programmer.
- Super
- PHP In Action
- being a good PHP book isn't saying much
