PHP Objects, Patterns and Practice (Expert's Voice in Open Source)

This book takes you beyond the PHP basics to the enterprise development practices used by professional programmers. Updated for PHP 5.3 with new sections on closures, namespaces, and continuous integration, this edition will teach you about object features such as abstract classes, reflection, interfaces, and error handling. You ll also discover object tools to help you learn more about your classes, objects, and methods.

Then you ll move into design patterns and the principles that make patterns powerful. You ll learn both classic design patterns and enterprise and database patterns with easy-to-follow examples.

Finally, you ll discover how to put it all into practice to help turn great code into successful projects. You ll learn how to manage multiple developers with Subversion, and how to build and install using Phing and PEAR. You ll also learn strategies for automated testing and building, including continuous integration.

Taken together, these three elements object fundamentals, design principles, and best practices will help you develop elegant and rock-solid systems.