Professional PHP5
Saturday, 26 February 2005 @ 5:11This is an awesome book that I would highly recommend. I am the type of person who learns well by considering how things fit into the big picture. Professional PHP5 really does a great job of describing the issues of PHP software design in its most structured forms.
Professional PHP5 starts with PHP5 Object Orientation Programming (OOP) concepts and moves into the ideas of broad patterns and toolkits. They provide code you can tryout yourself; doing is of course the best way to learn.
You can build a tool kit with useful collection classes, generic object classes, communication classes, debugging classes, and abstract classes. You can learn the practical and ideal implementations of a Model View Controller pattern and Unit Testing. You can get a feel for SOAP, the finite state machine, and PHP session handling.
The book also has great tips and examples of project management, system design and planning, quality testing, and deployment.
It is a really great book for a wide audience, and I’d recommend it for serious PHP programmers.
Professional PHP5
Author: Edward Lecky-Thompson, Heow Eide-Goodman, Steven D. Nowicki, and Alec Cove
Publisher: Wrox Publishing
Published: November 2004
ISBN: 0764572822
Pages: 662
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