PHP Master Write Cutting-Edge Code
Sharp, sure-fire techniques guaranteed to take your PHP skills to the next level!
PHP Master: Write Cutting-edge Code is tailor-made for PHP developers who are serious about refining their server-side applications. This book will help you to employ the most effective object oriented programming approaches, wrap your projects in layers of security, and ensure your code is doing its job perfectly.
What's Inside?
Objected Oriented Programming Blueprint
Create professional, dynamic applications according to an object-oriented blueprint, make your code and applications more efficient and easier to maintain
Advanced Performance Evaluation & Testing Techniques
Learn advanced performance evaluation techniques for maximum site efficiency, and brush up on the best testing methods to refine your code and keep your applications watertight.
Latest Security Systems
See how you can protect your sites against attacks and vulnerabilities with the latest PHP security considerations, techniques and systems.
PHP APIs/ Extensions and Libraries
Learn how you can use PHP’s extensive range of APIs, extensions and libraries (PEAR, PECL etc) to greatly extend your application’s functionality.
Who is Lorna Mitchell?
Lorna Jane Mitchell is a PHP consultant based in Leeds, UK with a Masters in Electronic Engineering. She organizes the PHP North West Conference and user group, and has written for .net magazine and php|architect, among others. You can find Lorna blogging regularly on her own site, lornajane.net.
Who is Davey Shafik?
Davey Shafik has been working with PHP and the LAMP stack, as well as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for over a decade. With several books, articles, and conference appearances under his belt, he enjoys teaching others any way he can. An avid photographer, he lives in sunny Florida with his wife and six cats.
Who is Matthew Turland?
Matthew Turland has been using PHP since 2002. Since that time, he’s become a Zend Certified Engineer in both PHP 5 and Zend Framework, published articles in php|architect magazine, and contributed to books on PHP. He’s also been a speaker at php|tek, Confoo, and ZendCon.
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This book is everything I wish I'd had when making that step from “can hack code” to “software engineer”…
Lorna Mitchell
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Author Notes
To become a PHP Master you must learn more than the language itself… you must learn why and when to choose how to write something a certain way. This book not only teaches you the fundamental technical skills of how, but also the why and the when…
Davey Shafik
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My goal in my part of this book has been to show some of these skills and practices to you, to contribute to a book that I wish I'd had myself back when I started learning PHP…
Matthew Turland
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