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PHP is experiencing a renaissance, though it may be difficult to tell with all of the outdated PHP tutorials online.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.

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.

Learn modern PHP features, such as namespaces, traits, generators, and closures
Discover how to find, use, and create PHP components
Follow best practices for application security, working with databases, errors and exceptions, and more
Learn tools and techniques for deploying, tuning, testing, and profiling your PHP applications
Explore Facebook’s HVVM and Hack language implementations―and how they affect modern PHP
Build a local development environment that closely matches your production server

About the Author

Josh Lockhart is the creator of the Slim Framework for PHP. He also created and maintains PHP The Right Way, a popular initiative in the PHP community to encourage best practices and provide quality information. Josh is a senior developer at New Media Campaigns, a full service web design, development, and marketing agency in Carrboro, North Carolina.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media; 1st edition (March 31, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1491905018
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1491905012
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Nick

Loaded with insights and ideal for anyone trying to get into PHP

Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2015

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I was recently asked to evaluate web development options for a start up and needed to get my head around modern PHP. This book was one of the books I purchased for that purpose. No book is perfect and this book has gaps, but it is something I would recommend to those wanting to get into PHP. The utility probably declines for experienced PHP programers, but there could still be some gems. I also purchased and reviewed Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript: With jQuery, CSS & HTML5 (Learning Php, Mysql, Javascript, Css & Html5) . Lockhart's book (Modern PHP) goes along way towards addressing my views on the short comings of Nixon's tomb on web technologies (also a good book). There are areas that could be improved in Modern PHP. The appendix on frameworks is a bit light in my opinion and would benefit from more development. A discussion of IDEs would also be useful, but these issues are not show stoppers. I enjoyed the section on frameworks and components and I found the discussion on Laravel verses other frameworks helpful, but I just wanted more details. Don't expect a glossy presentation or extensive code examples. Instead this book provides valuable insights and is worth every cent. This book together with Nixon's book is a good combination. I've definitely made good use of this book and am looking forward to grabbing an O'Reilly code Cookbook. If you know programming, but are not an experienced PHP programer and need to get your head around the subject matter quickly then this book should be at the top of your reading list.

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Great content, decent-but-could-be-better wordsmithing

Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2018

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I largely loved this book. I'm a self-taught programmer, and thus I often fall behind new trends and practices. This book opened my eyes to a lot of features and trends I had only heard mention of. Properly using autoload and composer -- as well as how to use traits and interfaces -- really opened my eyes. I also loved that the author is a programmer who is doing actual work in this language NOW. His advice --- and this almost always true of O'Reilly books --- really smacks of someone who practices what they preach.

The "Features" chapter and the first "good practices" chapter are worth the price of the whole book.

Now there IS something which could be better, and I'm being fussy here: the writing is still too verbose. Still, as in so many technical books are too verbose. The gold standard of "how to be better at your craft" book is "The Elements of Style" by Strunk and White, and that's because of its brevity. Even though that book is about writing, and this book is about code, I think it could be inspired by Strunk/White and cut the amount of explaining way down. I think this about every tech manual I've ever read, I should say.

BUT the content is good enough that it more than makes up for it and I've very glad I read it. Teaching myself some Symfony components now so I don't re-invent the wheel on my next application.

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A Must Read for PHP Developers

Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2015

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Excellent ROI. I have been a web dev for almost 20 years and was a "hard-core" PHP guy for some of those years, then didn't touch PHP for over 8 years. PHP grew up while I was off in Python land! In my opinion, Josh Lockhart's Modern PHP is a must-read for any PHP programmer. Sure there are lots of things he could go into deeper, but this book was needed--an excellent overview of almost everything a PHP developer needs to know from installing and configuring PHP and web servers, code style, recommended directory structures, the newer supported object oriented concepts, testing, debugging, profiling, deployments, using Composer, and even a good overview of HHVM and Hack--enough to help you know if you want to dive in more at this time.

I will surely be referring to this book to lean on some of Josh's recommendations as I setup new projects.

A little additional Josh Lockhart plug--I learned about him when I chose to use his Slim PHP micro framework in my latest project. That project was rolled into production about 90 days ago to very happy customers. I am delighted with Slim. It does the very basic plumbing I'd rather not code and does it very well. Then it stays the heck out of my way so I can write my own PHP to do what I need to do.

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Fun and Technical

Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2016

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This book is for Intermediate to Advanced PHP writers. I think beginners would find some value in it, being exposed to some of the more standard practices of PHP, but it might require a second glance once you've actually written some code for a while.

I would just like to thank the author for touching a lot of amazing points about modern PHP in a fun and well organized way. It was actually a fun, interesting read from start to finish. I think that it only languished in technical detail when and for as long as it needed to. I went away from PHP around 5.3 and came back months before PHP 7 came on the scene. This book was exactly what I needed to catch up and see what amazing things were happening in PHP and the community. I could see it being a great read, too, if you're fairly familiar with PHP.

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Perfect book to learn advanced features is you've been away a while...

Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2019

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I'm a senior developer and used a lot of PHP on websites 10 years ago. Getting back to it and wanted to know what had changed in features, development environments, debugging. I'm a hard critic, but this book was excellent. It's not very thick but it has great info on changes and excellent advice. ONE NOTE - this is not a PHP syntax book, it already assumes you are pretty familiar with the language.

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Great concept, but a bit rushed.

Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2015

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Overall this is a great concept for a book, and I like that it's a lean book. At the same time, I wish the author had spent a bit more time on some topics. He does a very fast overview of most topics, and though some topics can be explained in a page (generators), he could have spent more time on others that require a bit more explaining (closures and attaching state). So in some places it's great, and in others it mainly serves to tip me off that I need to go... somewhere else... and learn about Topic X.

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Alexander Gerber

Gut aber ein keine php7 Features

Reviewed in Germany on January 3, 2019

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Gut aber leider wird nur auf max php 5.6 eingegangen

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pedro

Buen libro para actualizarse

Reviewed in Spain on April 24, 2018

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Me gusta mucho cómo cuenta las cosas. La tipografía y tamaño de fuente hace una lectura cómoda y relajada. Los contenidos están muy completos.

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Axel

Excelente libro para referencia de PHP en la modernidad

Reviewed in Mexico on October 26, 2016

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Este libro es una excelente referencia para PHP. Toma el estado "actual" (PHP 5.6, esto ya cambió un poco con la publicación de PHP7) del lenguaje y las mejores prácticas y sienta las bases para el desarrollo sobre esta plataforma. Lleno de gran contenido y marcos referenciales para soluciones en PHP. Recomiendo mucho echarle un ojo al libro y al sitio[...], iniciativa del mismo autor para tener un punto de referencia condiable sobre el desarrollo en PHP.

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This book does a fantastic job of introducing and exploring PHP's major improvements over ...

Reviewed in Canada on May 22, 2016

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This book does a fantastic job of introducing and exploring PHP's major improvements over the past five years. A must-read for anyone who is accustomed to the "PHP4" way of doing things, or who wants to modernize a codebase from that era.

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Dr. Matt Smith

the best PHP available in 2015

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 9, 2015

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Josh's website has been the goto source of best practice PHP for some years now, and his book is more of the same.
I teach PHP programming to undergraduate computing students and this book is top of my list.
Perhaps some new PHP books will come out following the release of PHP 7, but at present this is the only book I can find covering many core work practices for high quality PHP programming in 2015.

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