PHP in Action: Objects, Design, Agility : 9781932394757

To keep programming productive and enjoyable, state-of-the-art practices and principles are essential. Object-oriented programming and design help manage complexity by keeping components cleanly separated. Unit testing helps prevent endless, exhausting debugging sessions. Refactoring keeps code supple and readable. PHP offers all this-and more.

This book shows you how to apply PHP techniques and principles to all the most common challenges of web programming, including:

* Web presentation and templates
* User interaction including the Model-View-Contoller architecture
* Input validation and form handling
* Database connection and querying and abstraction
* Object persistence

The story behind this book is personal. A few years ago, I came to the realization that what I had done in my professional life until then was not quite up to my own expectations. Though not dramatic enough to qualify as a midlife crisis, this realization got me thinking in new ways.