PHP 7 Programming Cookbook

Doug Bierer

• Verlag: Packt Publishing
• Jahr: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781785883446
• Auflage: 1
• Thema: Computer Science
• Thema: Programming

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

About This Book

• 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

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.

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

In Detail

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.

Style and approach

This book takes a recipe-based approach, with real-world examples that can serve as building blocks for a larger application. Each recipe is self-contained with no external dependencies. This book follows a problem-solution strategy so you understand how to deal with various scenarios you may encounter while using PHP 7 in your daily activities.

PHP 7 Programming Cookbook

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Table of Contents

PHP 7 Programming Cookbook

Credits

Foreword

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Sections

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Building a Foundation

Introduction

PHP 7 installation considerations

How to do it...

Installing directly from source

Installing PHP 7 from pre-compiled binaries

Installing a *AMP package

There's more...

See also

Using the built-in PHP web server

How to do it...

Defining a test MySQL database

How to do it...

Installing PHPUnit

Implementing class autoloading

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Hoovering a website

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Building a deep web scanner

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Creating a PHP 5 to PHP 7 code converter

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

2. Using PHP 7 High Performance Features

Introduction

Understanding the abstract syntax tree

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Understanding differences in parsing

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Understanding differences in foreach() handling

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Improving performance using PHP 7 enhancements

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Iterating through a massive file

How to do it...

How it works...

Uploading a spreadsheet into a database

Getting ready...

How to do it...

How it works...

Recursive directory iterator

How to do it...

How it works...

3. Working with PHP Functional Programming

Introduction

Developing functions

How to do it...

How it works...

Hinting at data types

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Using return value data typing

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Using iterators

How to do it...

How it works...

Writing your own iterator using generators

How to do it...

How it works...

4. Working with PHP Object-Oriented Programming

Introduction

Developing classes

How to do it...

How it works...

See also...

Extending classes

How to do it...

How it works...

Using static properties and methods

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Using namespaces

How to do it...

How it works...

Defining visibility

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Using interfaces

How to do it...

How it works...

Using traits

How to do it...

How it works...

Implementing anonymous classes

How to do it...

How it works...

5. Interacting with a Database

Introduction

Using PDO to connect to a database

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Building an OOP SQL query builder

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Handling pagination

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Defining entities to match database tables

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Tying entity classes to RDBMS queries

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Embedding secondary lookups into query results

How to do it...

How it works...

Implementing jQuery DataTables PHP lookups

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

6. Building Scalable Websites

Introduction

Creating a generic form element generator

How to do it...

How it works...

Creating an HTML radio element generator

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Creating an HTML select element generator

How to do it...

How it works...

Implementing a form factory

How to do it...

How it works...

Chaining $_POST filters

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Chaining $_POST validators

How to do it...

How it works...

Tying validation to a form

How to do it...

How it works...

7. Accessing Web Services

Introduction

Converting between PHP and XML

How to do it...

How it works...

Creating a simple REST client

How to do it...

Creating a streams-based REST client

Defining a cURL-based REST client

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Creating a simple REST server

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Creating a simple SOAP client

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Creating a simple SOAP server

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

8. Working with Date/Time and International Aspects

Introduction

Using emoticons or emoji in a view script

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Converting complex characters

How to do it...

How it works...

Getting the locale from browser data

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Formatting numbers by locale

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Handling currency by locale

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Formatting date/time by locale

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Creating an HTML international calendar generator

How to do it...

Refining internationalized output

How it works...

See also

Building a recurring events generator

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Handling translation without gettext

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

9. Developing Middleware

Introduction

Authenticating with middleware

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Using middleware to implement access control

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Improving performance using the cache

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Implementing routing

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Making inter-framework system calls

How to do it...

How it works...

Using middleware to cross languages

How to do it...

10. Looking at Advanced Algorithms

Introduction

Using getters and setters

How to do it...

How it works...

Implementing a linked list

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Building a bubble sort

How to do it...

How it works...

Implementing a stack

How to do it...

How it works...

Building a binary search class

Ho...