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M. ZandstraPHP 8 Objects, Patterns, and Practicehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6791-2_1

1. PHP: Design and Management

Matt Zandstra1  
(1)
Brighton, UK
 

In July 2004, PHP 5.0 was released. This version introduced a suite of radical enhancements. Perhaps first among these was radically improved support for object-oriented programming. This stimulated much interest in objects and design within the PHP community. In fact, this was an intensification of a process that began when version 4 first made object-oriented programming with PHP a serious reality.

In this chapter, I look at some of the needs that coding with objects can address. I very briefly summarize some aspects of the evolution of patterns and related practices.

I also ...

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