Object-Oriented Programming with PHP5 Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Introduction

• Chapter 1: OOP vs. Procedural Programming
• Introduction to PHP
• Ready, Set, Go
• A Little History of OOP in PHP
• Procedural vs. OO Coding Style
• Benefits of OOP
• Dissection of an Object
• Difference of OOP in PHP4 and PHP5
• Some Basic OO Terms
• General Coding Conventions
• Summary

• Chapter 2: Kick-Starting OOP
• Let's Bake Some Objects
• Accessing Properties and Methods from Inside the Class
• Using an Object
• Modifiers
• Constructors and Destructors
• Class Constants
• Extending a Class [Inheritance]
• Overriding Methods
• Preventing from Overriding
• Preventing from Extending
• Polymorphism
• Interface
• Abstract Class
• Static Method and Properties
• Accessor Methods
• Using Magic Methods to Set/Get Class Properties
• Magic Methods for Overloading Class Methods
• Visually Representing a Class
• Summary

• Chapter 3: More OOP
• Class Information Functions
• Checking if a Class Already Exists
• Finding Currently Loaded Classes
• Finding out if Methods and Properties Exists
• Checking the Type of Class
• Finding Out the Class Name
• Exception Handling
• Collecting all PHP Errors as Exception
• Iterators
• ArrayObject
• Array to Object
• Accessing Objects in Array Style
• Serialization
• Magic Methods in Serialization
• Object Cloning
• Autoloading Classes or Classes on Demand
• Method Chaining
• Life Cycle of an Object in PHP and Object Caching
• Summary

• Chapter 4: Design Patterns
• You Might have Done this Before…
• Strategy Pattern
• Factory Pattern
• Abstract Factory
• Adapter Pattern
• Singleton Pattern
• Iterator Pattern
• Observer Pattern
• Proxy Pattern or Lazy Loading
• Decorator Pattern
• Active Record Pattern
• Facade Pattern
• Summary

• Chapter 5: Reflection and Unit Testing
• Reflection
• ReflectionClass
• ReflectionMethod
• ReflectionParameter
• ReflectionProperty
• Unit Testing
• Benefits of Unit Testing
• A small Introduction to Vulnerable Bugs
• Preparing for Unit Testing
• Starting Unit Testing
• Testing an Email Validator Object
• Unit Testing for Everyday Script
• Test Driven Development
• Writing Multiple Assertions
• PHPUnit API
• Summary

• Chapter 6: Standard PHP Library
• Available Objects in SPL
• ArrayObject
• ArrayIterator
• DirectoryIterator
• RecursiveDirectoryIterator
• RecursiveIteratorIterator
• AppendIterator
• FilterIterator
• LimitIterator
• NoRewindIterator
• SeekableIterator
• RecursiveIterator
• SPLFileObject
• SPLFileInfo
• SPLObjectStorage
• Summary

• Chapter 7: Database in an OOP Way
• Introduction to MySQLi
• Connecting to MySQL in an OO Way
• Selecting Data in an OO Way
• Updating Data in an OO Way
• Prepared Statements
• Basic Prepared Statements
• Prepared Statements with Variables
• Using BLOB with Prepared Statements
• Executing Stored Procedure with MySQLi and PHP
• PDO
• DSN Settings for Different Databases Engines
• Using Prepared Statements with PDO
• Calling Stored Procedures
• Other Interesting Functions
• Introduction to Data Abstraction Layers
• ADOdb
• Installing ADOdb
• Connecting to Different Databases
• Basic Database Operations using ADOdb
• Inserting, Deleting, and Updating Records
• Executing Prepared Statements
• MDB2
• Installing MDB2
• Connecting to Database
• Executing Prepared Statements
• Introduction to ActiveRecord
• Creating a New Record via ActiveRecord
• Selecting and Updating Data
• Summary

• Chapter 8: Cooking XML with OOP
• Formation of XML
• Introduction to SimpleXML
• Parsing Documents
• Accessing Attributes
• Parsing Flickr Feeds using SimpleXML
• Managing CDATA Sections using SimpleXML
• XPath
• DOM API
• Modifying Existing Documents
• Other Useful Functions
• Summary

• Chapter 9: Building Better with MVC
• What is MVC?
• Planning for the Project
• Designing the Bootstrap File
• Adding Database Support
• Drivers
• Building Applications over our Framework
• Authentication Controller
• Summary

• Index