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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.133
EAN: 9781590593806
Edition: 1
ISBN: 1590593804
Label: Apress
Manufacturer: Apress
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 438
Publication Date: December 21, 2004
Publisher: Apress
Studio: Apress
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...if you have seen true object-oriented development, and have had trouble using these concepts in PHP; don't despair any longer. Matt (Zandstra) has done all the work for you--all you need is a weekend or two to do a little reading. While being an easy read, Zandstra's introduction to the object-oriented features is, I believe, perfectly adequate to get started with object-oriented PHP programming.
— Lasse Koskela, JavaRanch Bartender
PHP 5 Objects, Patterns, and Practice is a practical design and management book devoted to exploring object-oriented programming in PHP 5, the latest and most powerful version of PHP. Using a wide variety of pattern examples, this insightful text explores the principles underlying design patterns, focusing largely on those patterns collected by the "Gang of Four." Veteran author Matt Zandstra further addresses the needs of PHP users by providing practice and examples on topics including unit testing, documentation, version control, and automated building.
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great book. clear and well written intro to objects. removes the mystery from the subject and puts it into good English. cheers!
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If your PHP is rusty from extended non-use (like mine these days) or if you are still new to PHP, this book can lose you. In chapter 4 the author assumes you are current with the PEAR database classes and throws out an example with no explanation of the code. If this book aims to help you become an advanced PHP coder, then it fails because it assumes you already are one. In my opinion, the book moves to fast and skips over to much explanation to be a good book to learn by, and is obviously not a reference book. I'm sure Zandstra knows his subject, he just needs to sharpen his teaching skills. 4 Stars for knowledge, 1 star for explanation & teaching.
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I bought this book because I wanted to get a quick start into PHP5 and I had heard of patterns and thought that I could mess around with patterns as I learned PHP5. In the following, note that web-development is just my hobby, not my job.
OMG... I have found religion. My previous attempt at coding up a large website was one that a friend and I coded up 7 years ago with PHP2/3 which was crushed under its own weight and we quickly reached a point that we could not progress any further without breaking something. What Matt does in this book is to bring together many different ways of approaching enterprise and other common PHP problems as far as how do you represent/create/organize data objects in your PHP program and how do you organize program and customer flow.
At first, I approached the "Practice" portion of the book as an afterthought, but have since learned that rigorous testing and test cases saves your behind as I have broken my code in unexpected ways ... Read More
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Its probably one of the best books for understanding php5 concepts. It describes each and every feature of php5 with appropriate examples and is quite easy to comprehend.
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The book gives an excellent introduction in object oriented programming (OOP), even when you want to learn OOP without using PHP. They first describe a clear problem and then show why and how OOP can be used to create a better solution.
(Note that I already had OOP Java knowledge before reading the book.)
The second part of the book focuses on Design Patterns, which I sometimes found not clearly explained; problems unclear and definitions not explained. The OOP part was clearer.
The last part focuses on external tools to ease php programming, like testing, documenting, automatic deploying etc.
A major problem about the book is that it focuses a lot on OOP and design patterns without simply showing how this can be directly applied on a webpage or website. The end of part II feels more like how to make a complete PHP Enterprise framework from scratch yourself, with a lot of details making it a bit hard to crasp. It will take a lot of (initial) effort ... Read More
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