PHP in Action

To keep programming productive and enjoyable, state-of- the-art practices and principles are essential. Object- oriented programming and design help manage complexity by keeping components cleanly separated. Unit testing helps prevent endless, exhausting debugging sessions. Refactoring keeps code supple and readable. PHP offers all this-and more. This book shows you how to apply PHP techniques and principles to all the most common challenges of web programming, including: Web presentation and templates; User interaction including the Model-View-Contoller architecture; Input validation and form handling; Database connection, querying and abstraction and; Object persistence.

Dagfinn Reiersol has been designing and developing web applications, web content mining software, web programming tools, and text analysis programs, mostly in PHP, since 1997. He also has a long history as a technical writer of software manuals. He lives in Oslo, Norway.

PHP and modern software development	p. 3
Objects in PHP	p. 18
Using PHP classes effectively	p. 40
Understanding objects and classes	p. 65
Understanding class relationships	p. 87
Object-oriented principles	p. 102
Design patterns	p. 123
Design how-to : date and time handling	p. 152
Test-driven development	p. 189
Advanced testing techniques	p. 210
Refactoring web applications	p. 232
Taking control with web tests	p. 269
Using templates to manage web presentation	p. 295
Constructing complex web pages	p. 325
User interaction	p. 338
Controllers	p. 356
Input validation	p. 377
Form handling	p. 413
Database connection, abstraction, and configuration	p. 432
Objects and SQL	p. 451
Data class design	p. 470
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