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PHP 8 Programming Tips, Tricks and Best Practices

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Product type Book
Published in Aug 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801071871
Pages 528 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Doug Bierer Doug Bierer
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Doug Bierer has been hooked on computers since his first program, written on a DEC PDP-8, in 1971. In his wide-ranging career, he has been a professional contract programmer since 1978, having written applications in BASIC, PL/I, assembler, FORTH, C, C++, dBase/FoxBase/Clipper, Pascal, Perl, Java, and PHP. He deployed his first website in 1993 while living in San Francisco. He speaks four languages, has traveled extensively, and now resides in Thailand. He also spent some years doing system administration and TCP/IP networking. Some of his technical works include PHP 7 Programming Cookbook and Learning MongoDB 4.x (Packt), as well as Learning PHP and MySQL, Learning PHP Security and Learning Doctrine (O'Reilly Media).
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: PHP 8 Tips
2. Chapter 1: Introducing New PHP 8 OOP Features 3. Chapter 2: Learning about PHP 8's Functional Additions 4. Chapter 3: Taking Advantage of Error-Handling Enhancements 5. Chapter 4: Making Direct C-Language Calls 6. Section 2: PHP 8 Tricks
7. Chapter 5: Discovering Potential OOP Backward-Compatibility Breaks 8. Chapter 6: Understanding PHP 8 Functional Differences 9. Chapter 7: Avoiding Traps When Using PHP 8 Extensions 10. Chapter 8: Learning about PHP 8's Deprecated or Removed Functionality 11. Section 3: PHP 8 Best Practices
12. Chapter 9: Mastering PHP 8 Best Practices 13. Chapter 10: Improving Performance 14. Chapter 11: Migrating Existing PHP Apps to PHP 8 15. Chapter 12: Creating PHP 8 Applications Using Asynchronous Programming 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Examining the FFI class

As you learned in this chapter, not every developer has a need to use the FFI extension. Having direct experience with the FFI extension deepens your understanding of the internals of the PHP language, and this deepened understanding can have a beneficial impact on your career as a PHP developer: it's quite possible that at some point in the future, you will be employed by a company that has developed a custom PHP extension. Knowing how to operate the FFI extension in this situation allows you to develop new features for a custom PHP extension, as well as helping you to troubleshoot extension problems.

The FFI class consists of 20 methods that fall into four broad categories, outlined as follows:

  • Creational: Methods in this category create instances of classes available from the FFI extension application programming interface (API).
  • Comparison: Comparison methods are designed to compare C data values.
  • Informational: This set of methods...
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Authors (1)

Profile icon Doug Bierer
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Doug Bierer has been hooked on computers since his first program, written on a DEC PDP-8, in 1971. In his wide-ranging career, he has been a professional contract programmer since 1978, having written applications in BASIC, PL/I, assembler, FORTH, C, C++, dBase/FoxBase/Clipper, Pascal, Perl, Java, and PHP. He deployed his first website in 1993 while living in San Francisco. He speaks four languages, has traveled extensively, and now resides in Thailand. He also spent some years doing system administration and TCP/IP networking. Some of his technical works include PHP 7 Programming Cookbook and Learning MongoDB 4.x (Packt), as well as Learning PHP and MySQL, Learning PHP Security and Learning Doctrine (O'Reilly Media).
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