Chapter 1: Object-Oriented PHP

In this first part of the book, we are going to explore modern object-oriented PHP. While there isn't sufficient space in this book to do a deep dive into this topic, we hope that you will be able to use the contents of the following three chapters as a jumping point for your own further study and experimentation. To be clear, for any PHP language features you see that you don't understand, you are absolutely encouraged to put the book down and go and start reading the PHP docs so that you can gain a fuller understanding of that particular feature. To underline this, you will see frequent links to the official documentation. You are encouraged to follow these links and read into any feature that you are not intimately ...

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