PHP Master: Write Cutting-edge Code

PHP Master: Write Cutting-edge Code is tailor-made for PHP developers who are serious about refining their server-side applications. This book will help you to employ the most effective object oriented programming approaches, wrap your projects in layers of security, and ensure your code is doing its job perfectly.

What will I learn?

• Create professional, dynamic applications according to an object-oriented blueprint – and make your code and applications easier to maintain.
• Learn advanced performance evaluation techniques to maximize your sites’ efficiency
• Protect your sites against attacks and vulnerabilities with the latest security considerations, techniques, and systems
• Learn to use PHP’s APIs, extensions, and libraries to extend your application’s functionality

Who should read this book?
PHP Master is written for the intermediate developer. This means you should have a solid grounding in the fundamentals of PHP, the syntax underpinning the code, how functions and variables operate, constructs like foreach loops and if/else statements, and how server-side scripts interact with client-side markup (with HTML forms, for instance).

A basic understanding of what databases are and how they work will help you along, but we’l be covering ways of connecting to them in great depth, as well as stepping through the world of SQL, the most popular query language used to interact with information in a database. A familiarity with command line interfaces and their associated vocabularies will be of assistance in the later chapters.

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