Professional PHP Design Patterns

By Aaron Saray

This guide helps PHP developers take advantage of the stabilityand features of design patterns

Design patterns are the cornerstones of building solid, stable,flexible, and feature-rich Web applications. This guide enables PHPdevelopers to take advantage of everything they offer.

If you are unfamiliar with design patterns, this book explainswhat you need to know. Both novice and veteran PHP developers willbenefit from the alphabetical list of design patterns and codeexamples showing how to implement each pattern in PHP. Step-by-stepinstructions for a sample contact management system will help youunderstand real-world applications for the information.

• Gets PHP developers who have not used design patterns up tospeed on the technology
• Shows programmers who are familiar with design patterns inother languages how to apply the techniques to PHP
• Includes examples of ordinary code used in everyday developmentand how to modify it for one of the design patterns discussed
• Provides an alphabetical list of common design patterns, withcode examples showing how each can be implemented in PHP
• Uses a case study of a contact management system to analyze anddemonstrate the step-by-step process of applying designpatterns

With its single focus on applying design patterns to PHPdevelopment, PHP Design Patterns helps both new and veteranPHP programmers improve their applications and their careerprospects.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wiley
• Release date: Aug 4, 2009
• ISBN: 9780470567470

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Reviews for Professional PHP Design Patterns

[sunwukung_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Having recently worked my way through Matt Zandstra's fantastic (but challenging) "PHP Objects, Patterns and Practice", I needed a more in depth discussion of design patterns and how they apply to the PHP environment. I snapped up this book as soon as it was released, and it's one of the best buys re:coding I've bought so far. Devoid of cruft, to the point and utilising simple, legible application code to illustrate the pattern context(as opposed to the typically irrelevant or hardcore examples pattern authors seem to favour) this book removes some of the unnecessary arcane trappings of design patterns.After the initial chapters, the core of the book comprises several chapters, each dedicated to a pattern. These chapters provide a simple scenario ideal for pattern deployment, a UML diagram and some simple code to demonstrate it's usage.The final chapters put this to work in a detailed and thorough exploration and development of an application, which in itself is a great reference for project development methodology.I heartily recommend this book as a simple reference for those of you who need to "get" design patterns and put them to work.