Appendix B. Object-Oriented PHP

 

This appendix covers
  • The PHP object model
  • An introduction to the iterators, arrays, and counting interfaces provided by the Standard PHP Library
  • The basics of software design patterns, including the Singleton and Registry patterns

 

This appendix will refresh your knowledge of those bits of PHP that you haven’t had a chance to deal with until now. Zend Framework is written in PHP5 and is fully object oriented, and you’ll need to have a reasonable amount of knowledge about OOP in PHP to make sense of it. This chapter is no substitute for a full book, such as PHP in Action by Reiersøl, Baker, and Shiflett, but it should help you enough to get going with Zend Framework.

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