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Learn to leverage PHP5's OOP features to write manageable applications with ease
  • General OOP concepts explained
  • Implement Design Patterns in your applications and solve common OOP Problems
  • Take full advantage of native built-in objects
  • Test your code by writing unit tests with PHPUnit
In Detail

Some basic objected-oriented features were added to PHP3; with PHP5 full support for object-oriented programming was added to PHP. Object-oriented programming was basically introduced to ease the development process as well as reduce the time of development by reducing the amount of code needed. OOP can greatly improve the performance of a properly planned and designed program. This book covers all the general concepts of OOP then shows you how to make use of OOP in PHP5, with the aid of an ample number of examples. What you will learn from this book?

  • Understand the OOP features of PHP clearly
  • Write manageable code
Approach This book explains how to take full advantage of PHP's OOP features in simple language. It contains plentiful examples to help you to understand OOP. Who this book is written for? From Beginners to Intermediate Users of PHP5


About the Author

Hasin Hayder

Hasin Hayder graduated in Civil Engineering from the Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET) in Bangladesh. He is a Zend-certified Engineer and expert in developing localized applications. He is currently working as a Technical Director in Trippert Labs and managing the local branch in Bangladesh. Beside his full time job, Hasin writes his blog at hasin.wordpress.com, writes article in different websites and maintains his open source framework Orchid at orchid.phpxperts.net. Hasin lives in Bangladesh with his wife Ayesha and his son, Afif.


Product Details

  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (December 30, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1847192564
  • ISBN-13: 978-1847192561
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,362,969 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Unclear, fails to communicate OO principles, December 22, 2007
By James Stewart (Grand Rapids, MI, USA) - See all my reviews
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With PHP 5.3 looking very close to release, bringing with it significant changes such as namespaces, this is an awkward time to release a PHP book of any generality. Within a few months it will be clearer how well the new features are taking hold and there is almost certainly going to be a clamour for books that show how new features affect development practices and how to make use of them. Even without that, it is hard to recommend this book as it fails to live up to its promise and provides a poor introduction to Object-Oriented programming.

The book's first problem is the poor quality of the English contained. The author does not appear to be a native English speaker and the publisher has apparently done little to clean up the language. For the most part that simply makes for some curious rhythm and phrasing but there are a number of places where it contributes to inaccuracies, such as constant confusion between objects and classes. Finding such inaccuracies alongside mistakes such as confusing polymorphism and inheritance I'm left wondering how well the authors really know their subject. Packt would do well to employ another reviewer to clean up the syntax and definitions before any reprints.

The structure of the book is curious. Rather than approaching topics through the use of an example project or projects, the author gives disconnected samples, often offering little beyond that which can be found in the online PHP documentation and generally failing to explain how techniques would be useful. While he insists that PHP5's Reflection API is an important tool, there is little to back up that assertion. There's a large code sample and a list of the methods and attributes of a reflection object, but no real substance. The database section covers some key examples, such as PDO, ADODB and MDB2, and touches on the ActiveRecord pattern, but uses four pages to list the RDBMSs that ADODB supports and then only spends a page and a half on ActiveRecord, failing to explain either its concepts or advantages in any detail.

The high point of the book is the half chapter on unit testing. A few well chosen examples provide a demonstration of how code can be tested and how that allows for refactoring without fear of regressions. The reasons for unit testing are clear as is basic usage of PHPUnit. I'd have liked to see further examples rather than several pages listing all the default assertions PHPUnit provides, and I disagree with the claim that there should never be more than one assertion per test (individual tests should focus on a single concern, but can use multiple assertions to do so) but by that point in the book it was good just to see a section that made its point clearly.

Fundamentally, I came away from this book feeling it had failed to communicate clearly the core principles or reasons for object oriented programming. By trying to cram in too much reference material, not offering clear contexts for each technique, and not lingering on ideas like encapsulation the book fails to instill OO techniques.

Disclaimer: I was sent a free copy of this book to review
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1.0 out of 5 stars Same as the documentation...but as interpreted by a non english speaker and with less examples, April 21, 2008
Read the php online docs instead, their examples are much better explained. What do you expect from a book with a clipart flower on the cover? Cheaply produced, outsourced, and spammzor'ed to everyone registered in the stupid php classes website.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Don't Buy, August 3, 2008
The author is obviously not comfortable with the English language, and not from a teaching background. The book has frequent errors, is not easy reading and just plain is not a book that is easy to learn from - maybe not even possible to learn from. I've taught myself over a dozen programming languages from books and I am a competent PHP programmer who just wants to add OOP style, yet this book was useless to me.
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