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Mastering PHP 7

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Published in Jun 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785882814

Pages 536 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Web Programming

Author (1):

Branko Ajzele

Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. The All New PHP

2. Embracing Standards

3. Error Handling and Logging

4. Magic Behind Magic Methods

5. The Realm of CLI

6. Prominent OOP Features

7. Optimizing for High Performance

8. Going Serverless

9. Reactive Programming

10. Common Design Patterns

11. Building Services

12. Working with Databases

13. Resolving Dependencies

14. Working with Packages

15. Testing the Important Bits

16. Debugging, Tracing, and Profiling

17. Hosting, Provisioning, and Deployment

phpspec

Like Behat, phpspec is an open source and free testing framework based on the notion of BDD. However, its approach to testing is quite different than that of Behat; we may even say it sits somewhere in the middle of PHPUnit and Behat. Unlike Behat, phpspec does not use the Gherkin format stories to describe its tests. Doing so, phpspec shifts its focus on internal, rather than external application behavior. Much like PHPUnit, phpspec allows us to instantiate objects, call its methods, and perform various assertions on the results. The part where it differs is in its "think of specification", and not of "think of test" approach.

Setting up phpspec

Much like PHPUnit and Behat, phpspec can be installed as a tool and a library. The tool version being the .phar archive, we can download it from the official GitHub repository, whereas the library version comes packed as a Composer package.

Assuming that we are using the Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) installation, installing phpspec as a tool...

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Authors (1)

Branko Ajzele

Branko Ajzele is a respected and highly accomplished software developer, book author, solution specialist, consultant, and team leader. He currently works for Interactive Web Solutions Ltd (iWeb), where he holds the role of senior developer and is the director of iWeb's Croatia office. Branko holds several respected IT certifications, including Zend Certified PHP Engineer, Magento Certified Developer, Magento Certified Developer Plus, Magento Certified Solution Specialist, Magento 2 Certified Solution Specialist, Magento 2 Certified Professional Developer, to mention just a few. He was crowned the e-commerce Developer of the Year by the Digital Entrepreneur Awards in October 2014 for his excellent knowledge and expertise in e-commerce development.

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