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Pro PHP 8 MVC

Model View Controller Architecture-Driven Application Development

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Authors:
  1. Christopher Pitt

    1. Verbena Close 1, Stellenberg, Durbanville, Cape Town, South Africa

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  • The first book on PHP MVC using PHP 8
  • Everything you'll need from first principles all the way to practical advice on advanced techniques
  • Written by a PHP and web development expert

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Ways to Use PHP

    • Christopher Pitt
    Pages 1-12

  3. Writing Our First Bit of Code

    • Christopher Pitt
    Pages 13-28

  4. Building a Router

    • Christopher Pitt
    Pages 29-52

  5. Building a Template Engine

    • Christopher Pitt
    Pages 53-99

  6. Building a Validator

    • Christopher Pitt
    Pages 101-132

  7. Building a Database Library

    • Christopher Pitt
    Pages 133-177

  8. Building an Object-Relational Mapper Library

    • Christopher Pitt
    Pages 179-221

  9. Building a Dependency Injection Container

    • Christopher Pitt
    Pages 223-245

  10. Testing Our Framework

    • Christopher Pitt
    Pages 247-276

  11. Config, Cache, Sessions, Filesystems

    • Christopher Pitt
    Pages 277-316

  12. Queues, Logging, Emails

    • Christopher Pitt
    Pages 317-350

  13. Publishing Your Code

    • Christopher Pitt
    Pages 351-357

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 359-367
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About this book

Examine the building blocks that make any good MVC framework using PHP 8. This book exposes all the considerations that many developers take for granted when using a popular framework, and teaches you how to make this MVC framework your own. 

You'll quickly get started writing your first bit of framework code, then, you build a variety of examples using aspects of an MVC framework, including a router, a template engine, a database library, a persistence engine (ORM), and a testing framework. In the next section, you'll implement sessions, caches, file systems, queues, logging, and mail. You'll wrap up by building a larger scale sample web application: a sales website for a company that sells rockets.

Along the way, this book lays bare all the secret parts of MVC to take with you to apply to your own PHP-based MVC projects.   

What You Will Learn

  • Build PHP-based web applications using the model view controller (MVC) architecture
  • Write your first bit of framework code
  • Compare the code you write with how the popular frameworks do the same kinds of things
    • Create various aspects of applications, engines, and other frameworks
  • Wrap up with a sample case study application

Who This Book Is For

Experienced PHP and web developers. Some prior experience with PHP and web development at least recommended.  

Authors and Affiliations

  • Verbena Close 1, Stellenberg, Durbanville, Cape Town, South Africa

    Christopher Pitt

About the author

Christopher Pitt is an experienced PHP and JavaScript/CSS web developer and writer, working at SilverStripe. He usually works on application architecture, though sometimes you’ll find him building compilers or robots.  He is also the author of several web development books and is a contributor on various open source projects such as AdonisJs and Masonite.

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