Modern PHP: New Features and Good Practices

Modern PHP: New Features and Good Practices

<div><p>PHP is experiencing a renaissance, though it may be difficult to tell with all of the outdated PHP tutorials online. With this practical guide, you'll learn how PHP has become a full-featured, mature language with object-orientation, namespaces, and a growing collection of reusable component libraries.</p><p>Author Josh Lockhart-creator of PHP The Right Way, a popular initiative to encourage PHP best practices-reveals these new language features in action. You'll learn best practices for application architecture and planning, databases, security, testing, debugging, and deployment. If you have a basic understanding of PHP and want to bolster your skills, this is your book.</p><ul><li>Learn modern PHP features, such as namespaces, traits, generators, and closures</li><li>Discover how to find, use, and create PHP components</li><li>Follow best practices for application security, working with databases, errors and exceptions, and more</li><li>Learn tools and techniques for deploying, tuning, testing, and profiling your PHP applications</li><li>Explore Facebook's HVVM and Hack language implementations-and how they affect modern PHP</li><li>Build a local development environment that closely matches your production server</li></ul></div>