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MATT ZANDSTRA, PHP Objects, Patterns, and Practice, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1996-6_1

1. PHP: Design and Management

Matt Zandstra

(1)Liverpool, Merseyside, UK

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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.

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