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.
PHP in Action 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
