Chapter 1. Building a Foundation
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- PHP 7 installation considerations
- Using the built-in PHP web server
- Defining a test MySQL database
- Installing PHPUnit
- Implementing class autoloading
- Hoovering a website
- Building a deep web scanner
- Creating a PHP 5 to PHP 7 code converter
Introduction
This chapter is designed as a quick start that will get you up and running on PHP 7 so that you can start implementing the recipes right away. The underlying assumption for this book is that you already have a good knowledge of PHP and programming. Although this book will not go into detail about the actual installation of PHP, given that PHP 7 is relatively new, we will do our best to point out the quirks and gotchas you ...
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