PHP Objects, Patterns, and Practice, Third Edition

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Contents at a Glance

■Contents at a Glance.......................................................................................................................iii

■Contents ..........................................................................................................................................v

■About the Author ......................................................................................................................... xvii

■About the Technical Reviewer.................................................................................................... xviii

■Acknowledgments........................................................................................................................ xix

■Introduction to the Third Edition ................................................................................................... xx

Part 1: Introduction.............................................................................................................................1

■Chapter 1: PHP: Design and Management .......................................................................................3

Part 2: Objects ....................................................................................................................................9

■Chapter 2: PHP and Objects...........................................................................................................11

■Chapter 3: Object Basics ...............................................................................................................15

■Chapter 4: Advanced Features.......................................................................................................41

■Chapter 5: Object Tools..................................................................................................................71

■Chapter 6: Objects and Design ......................................................................................................99

Part 3: Patterns...............................................................................................................................121

■Chapter 7: What Are Design Patterns? Why Use Them?..............................................................123

■Chapter 8: Some Pattern Principles ............................................................................................131

■Chapter 9: Generating Objects.....................................................................................................145

■Chapter 10: Patterns for Flexible Object Programming...............................................................169

■Chapter 11: Performing and Representing Tasks........................................................................189

■Chapter 12: Enterprise Patterns ..................................................................................................221

■Chapter 13: Database Patterns....................................................................................................275

Part 4: Practice...............................................................................................................................315

■Chapter 14: Good (and Bad) Practice ..........................................................................................317

■Chapter 15: An Introduction to PEAR and Pyrus..........................................................................323

■Chapter 16: Generating Documentation with phpDocumentor ....................................................347

■Chapter 17: Version Control with Subversion..............................................................................361

■Chapter 18: Testing with PHPUnit................................................................................................379

■Chapter 19: Automated Build with Phing ....................................................................................407

■Chapter 20: Continuous Integration.............................................................................................427

Part 5: Conclusion...........................................................................................................................451

■Chapter 21: Objects, Patterns, Practice ......................................................................................453

■Appendix A: Bibliography ............................................................................................................463

■Appendix B: A Simple Parser.......................................................................................................467

■Index............................................................................................................................................219

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