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With the release of PHP 5 and the Zend Engine 2, PHP finally graduates from
it earliest days as a lightweight scripting syntax to an powerful object oriented
programming language that can hold its own against the Java and .NET architectures
that currently dominate corporate software development. This book has a pragmatic
focus on how to use PHP in the larger scheme of enterprise-class software development.
What does this book cover?
Unlike Java or .NET, there is little discussion of the application of design
patterns, component architectures, and best-practices to the development of
applications using PHP. Software written in the absence of this sort of higher-order
architecture will never be able to match the robust frameworks that Java and
.NET ship with out of the box. This book addresses this issue by covering the
following material:
- Part 1 discusses the OO concepts that were initially explored in
Beginning PHP 5 and a demonstration of how to implement them in PHP
5. This section also covers UML modeling and provides a brief introduction
to project management techniques that are covered in more depth in Part 4.
- Parts 2 and 3 present objects and object hierarchies that, when completed,
comprise a robust toolkit that developers will be able to reuse on future
projects. These chapters are designed to arm the professional PHP developer
with the sort of constructs that are available out of the box with platforms
such as Java and .NET — from simple utility classes like Collection
and Iterator, to more complex constructs like Model/View/Controller architectures
and state machines.
- Part 4 shows how to use the toolkit from Parts 2 and 3 to create
real-world applications. We look at the development of a robust contact management
system that will leverage the componentry and concepts already discussed and
introduce project management and software architecture concepts that enable
developers to accurately identify business requirements, design scalable,
extensible platforms, and handle change management effectively. It covers
the waterfall and spiral project management paradigms and include a discussion
on eXtreme Programming and other approaches to software development.
- The Appendices include an extended discussion on the effective use
of CVS, introduce the Zend Studio IDE and related tools, and discuss performance
tuning and scalability.
Table of Contents
PART I: OBJECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT.
1. Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming.
2. Unified Modeling Language (UML).
3. Putting Objects to Work.
4. Design Patterns.
PART II: CREATING A REUSABLE OBJECT TOOLKIT I—SIMPLE CLASSES AND
INTERFACES.
5. Collection Class.
6. CollectionIterator Class.
7. GenericObject Class.
8. Database Abstraction Layers.
9. Factory Interface.
10. Event Driven Programming.
11. Logging and Debugging.
12. SOAP.
PART III: CREATING A REUSABLE OBJECT TOOLKIT II— COMPLEX (THOUGH
NOT COMPLICATED) UTILITIES.
13. Model, View, Controller (MVC).
14. Communicating with Users.
15. Sessions and Authentication.
16. Unit Testing Framework.
17. Finite State Machine and Custom Configuration Files.
PART IV: TEST CASE: SALES FORCE AUTOMATION.
18. Project Overview.
19. Project Management Methodologies.
20. Planning the System.
21. Systems Architecture.
22. Assembling the Sales Force Automation Toolkit.
23. Quality Assurance.
24. Deployment.
25. Designing and Developing a Robust Reporting Platform.
26. Where Do We Go From Here?
PART V: APPENDICES.
Appendix A: Why Version Control Is a Good Thing™.
Appendix B: PHP IDEs.
Appendix C: Performance Tuning PHP.
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