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This book takes you beyond the PHP basics to the enterprise development practices used by professional programmers. Updated for PHP 5.3 with new sections on closures, namespaces, and continuous integration, this edition will teach you about object features such as abstract classes, reflection, interfaces, and error handling. You´ll also discover object tools to help you learn more about your classes, objects, and methods.

Then you´ll move into design patterns and the principles that make patterns powerful. You´ll learn both classic design patterns and enterprise and database patterns with easy-to-follow examples.

Finally, you´ll discover how to put it all into practice to help turn great code into successful projects. You´ll learn how to manage multiple developers with Subversion, and how to build and install using Phing and PEAR. You´ll also learn strategies for automated testing and building, including continuous integration.

Taken together, these three elements-object fundamentals, design principles, and best practices-will help you develop elegant and rock-solid systems.

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Part 1. Introduction
Chapter 1. Php: Design And Management
Chapter 2. Php And Objects
Chapter 3. Object Basics
Chapter 4. Advanced Features
Chapter 5. Object Tools
Chapter 6. Objects And Design
Chapter 7. What Are Design Patterns? Why Use Them?
Chapter 8. Some Pattern Principles
Chapter 9. Generating Objects
Chapter 10. Patterns For Flexible Object Programming
Chapter 11. Performing And Representing Tasks
Chapter 12. Enterprise Patterns
Chapter 13. Database Patterns
Chapter 14. Good (And Bad) Practice
Chapter 15. An Introduction To Pear
Chapter 16. Generating Documentation With Phpdocumentor
Chapter 17. Version Control
Chapter 18. Testing
Chapter 19. Automated Build With Phing
Chapter 20. Continuous Integration
Chapter 21. Objects, Patterns, And Practice
Appendix A. Bibliography
Appendix B. A Simple Parser

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Matt Zandstra has worked as a web programmer, consultant, and writer for nearly two decades. He is the author of SAMS Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours (three editions) and a contributor to DHTML Unleashed. He has written articles for Linux Magazine, Zend.com, IBM DeveloperWorks, and php architect Magazine, among others. Matt works as a consultant advising companies on their architectures and system management, and also develops systems primarily with PHP, and Java. Matt also writes fiction.

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