Long Description
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. 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. The proposed book will address this issue by covering the following material: * Part 1 will be a discussion of the OO concepts that were initially explored in Beginning PHP 5 and a demonstration of how to implement them in PHP 5. This section will also cover UML modeling and provide a brief introduction to project management techniques that will be covered in more depth in Part 4. * Parts 2 and 3 are the core material of the book. Each chapter will 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 will show how to use the toolkit from Parts 2 and 3 to create real-world applications. We will 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 will cover the waterfall and spiral project management paradigms and include a discussion on eXtreme Programming and other approaches to software development. * The Appendices will include an extended discussion on the effective use of CVS, introduce the Zend Studio IDE and related tools, and discuss performance tuning and scalability.
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Keywords
language
object-oriented
open source
PHP
PHP 5
programming
scripting
UML
Zend Engine
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