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The Art of Modern PHP 8

You're reading from The Art of Modern PHP 8

Product type Book

Published in Oct 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800566156

Pages 420 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Server Side Web Development

Author (1):

Joseph Edmonds

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1 – PHP 8 OOP

2. Chapter 1: Object-Oriented PHP

3. Chapter 2: Inheritance and Composition, Encapsulation and Visibility, Interfaces and Concretions

4. Chapter 3: Advanced OOP Features

5. Section 2 – PHP Types

6. Chapter 4: Scalar, Arrays, and Special Types

7. Chapter 5: Object Types, Interfaces, and Unions

8. Chapter 6: Parameter, Property, and Return Types

9. Section 3 – Clean PHP 8 Patterns and Style

10. Chapter 7: Design Patterns and Clean Code

11. Chapter 8: Model, View, Controller (MVC) Example

12. Chapter 9: Dependency Injection Example

13. Section 4 – PHP 8 Composer Package Management (and PHP 8.1)

14. Chapter 10: Composer For Dependencies

15. Chapter 11: Creating Your Own Composer Package

16. Section 5 – Bonus Section - PHP 8.1

17. Chapter 12: The Awesomeness That Is 8.1

18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using Composer to require packages

So, now that you have an idea of what dependencies are, what dependency management and resolution are all about, and have also understood the benefits of autoloading, it's time to start using Composer.

I assume you have already installed Composer, but if not, here is the link again:

Introduction – Composer

https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md#installation-linux-unix-macos

Finding dependencies

The primary source of packages for Composer-based projects is a website called Packagist:

Packagist

https://packagist.org/

This is the default "repository" that Composer searches when looking for packages that are defined as dependencies.

At the time of writing, Packagist contains over 300,000 packages, with 2.8 million versions available. Chances are, if you need something, then there is a package for it.

The initial mechanism for discovering packages is to simply search on Packagist; for example:

Packagist...

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Authors (1)

Joseph Edmonds

Joseph Edmonds is a business owner, developer, and author. He is a Zend Certified Engineer, among his other credentials. He's been a part of the e-commerce, tech, and PHP development worlds since the dawn of the millennium. He witnessed the exploding growth of e-commerce from the early days, helping several companies advance and expand their operations. During this time, he has had the pleasure of seeing PHP grow from a fairly amateur language, punching way above its weight, into a modern and highly performant language for serious enterprise projects. Responding to a growing demand for highly specialized PHP development services, he launched Edmonds Commerce in 2007. As an independent agency, Edmonds Commerce provides highly specialist PHP development services to businesses that use open source PHP, and predominantly Magento, as the backbone of their online systems, solving even the most complex and unique PHP development challenges. As a way to offer a high-level, interrelated service to businesses who want to accelerate their growth, he started an exciting new venture in 2020. LTS (Long Term Support Ltd.) provides expert help in recruitment, training, DevOps and infrastructure, consultancy, and development.

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