PHP 7 programming blueprints : develop production-ready web applications with PHPBlueprints / Jose Palala, Martin Helmich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Palala, Jose, author.

Helmich, Martin, author.

Series:

Community experience distilled.

Community Experience Distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

PHP (Computer program language).

Web applications--Development.

Web applications.

Web site development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Palala Jose: Jose Palala has been working professionally with PHP for at least 8 years. He has experience working with PHP frameworks such as Eden PHP, CodeIgniter, Laravel and Zend. He has worked for Philippine-based IT companies for at least 8 years, working on projects ranging from internal corporate systems and CMS websites. In his spare time, he regularly contributes back to the tech community in the Philippines. Helmich Martin: Martin Helmich studied computer science at the University of Applied Sciences in Osnabruck and lives in Rahden, Germany. He works as a software architect, specializing in building distributed applications using web technologies and Microservice Architectures. Besides programming in Go, PHP, Python, and Node. js, he also builds infrastructures using configuration management tools such as SaltStack and container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes. He is an open source enthusiast and likes to make fun of people who are not using Linux. In his free time, you'll probably find him coding on one of his open source pet projects, listening to music, or reading science fiction literature.

Summary:

Learn how to exploit the impressive power of PHP 7 with this collection of practical project blueprints ? begin building better applications for the web today! About This Book Don't just learn PHP 7 ? follow a diverse range of practical knowledge to get started quickly Take advantage of PHP 7's newest features ? and find out how to use them to solve real development challenges Put PHP to work for performance and scalability ? we'll show you how, you do it! Who This Book Is For The book is for web developers, PHP consultants, and anyone who is working on multiple projects with PHP. Basic knowledge of PHP programming is assumed. What You Will Learn Build versatile projects using the newest features PHP 7 has to offer Learn how to use PHP 7's event-driven asynchronous features Find out how to improve the performance of your code with effective techniques and design patterns Get to grips with backend development and find out how to optimize session handling Learn how to use the PHP 7 Abstract Syntax Tree to improve the quality of your code and make it more maintainable Find out how to build a RESTful web service Build your own asynchronous microservice In Detail When it comes to modern web development, performance is everything. The latest version of PHP has been improvised and updated to make it easier to build for performance, improved engine execution, better memory usage, and a new and extended set of tools. If you're a web developer, what's not to love? This guide will show you how to make full use of PHP 7 with a range of practical projects that will not only teach you the principles, but also show you how to put them into practice. It will push and extend your skills, helping you to become a more confident and fluent PHP developer. You'll find out how to build a social newsletter service, a simple blog with a search capability using Elasticsearch, as well as a chat application. We'll also show you how to create a RESTful web service, a database class to manage a shopping cart on an e-commerce site and how to build an asynchronous microservice architecture. With further guidance on using reactive extensions in PHP, we're sure that you'll find everything you need to take full advantage of PHP 7. So dive in now! Style and approach This product focuses on helping developers build projects from scratch. But more than that, each project will help the reader to learn a new facet or feature of PHP 7 ? it means the reader really will ?learn by doing.'

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Create a User Profile System and use the Null Coalesce Operator

The null coalesce operator

Separation of Concerns

Creating views

Create a profile input form

Admin system

Summary

Chapter 2: Build a Database Class and Simple Shopping Cart

Building the database abstraction class

Raw query method

Create method

Read method

Select all method

Delete method

Update method

first_of method

last_of method

iterate_over method

searchString method

Using the convert_to_json method to implement a simple API

Shopping Cart

Building the shopping items list

Item template rendering function

Adding checkboxes to the Shopping List page

Cookies in PHP

Building the Checkout page

Thank you page

Installing TCPDF

Admin for managing purchases

Chapter 3: Building a Social Newsletter Service

Authentication system

Creating a social login for members

Member dashboard

Marketers dashboard

Administration system for managing marketers

Custom template for our newsletter

Link tracking

AJAX socket chat for support

Introduction to socket.io

Chapter 4: Build a Simple Blog with Search Capability using Elasticsearch

Creating the CRUD and admin system

Seeding the post table

What is Elasticsearch?

Installing Elasticsearch and the PHP client

Building a PHP Elasticsearch tool

Adding documents to our Elasticsearch

Querying Elasticsearch

Installing Logstash

Setting up the Logstash configuration

Installing PHP Redis

Encoding and decoding JSON messages

Storing Apache logs in Elasticsearch

Getting filtered data to display with Highcharts

Dashboard app for viewing Elasticsearch logs.

Simple search engine with result caching

Cache basics

Cache invalidation of Redis data

Using browser localStorage as cache

Working with streams

Storing and searching XML documents using PHP

Using Elasticsearch to search a social network database

Displaying randomized search engine results

Chapter 5: Creating a RESTful Web Service

RESTful basics

REST architectures

Common HTTP methods and response codes

First steps with the Slim framework

Installing Slim

A small sample application

Accepting URL parameters

Accepting HTTP requests with a message body

The PSR-7 standard

Middleware

Implementing the REST service

Designing the service

Bootstrapping the project

Building the persistence layer with MongoDB

Adding and retrieving users

Listing and searching users

Deleting profiles

Validating input

Streams and large files

Profile image upload

Using GridFS storage

Chapter 6: Building a Chat Application

The WebSocket protocol

First steps with Ratchet

Architectural considerations

Getting started

Testing WebSocket applications

Playing with the event loop

Implementing the chat application

Bootstrapping the project server-side

Bootstrapping the HTML user interface

Building a simple chat application

Receiving messages

Sending messages

Testing the application

Keeping the connection from timing out

Deployment options

Bridging Ratchet and PSR-7 applications

Accessing your application via the web server

Adding authentication

Creating the login form

Checking the authorization

Connecting users and messages

Chapter 7: Building an Asynchronous Microservice Architecture

The target architecture

ZeroMQ patterns

Request/reply pattern

Publish/subscribe pattern

Push/pull pattern.

Bootstrapping the project

Building the inventory service

Getting started with ZeroMQ REQ/REP sockets

Using JsonRPC for communication

Making the inventory service multithreaded

Building the checkout service

Using react/zmq

Working with promises

Building the mailing service

Building the shipping service

PUSH/PULL for beginners

Fan-out/fan-in

Bridging ZeroMQ and HTTP

Chapter 8: Building a Parser and Interpreter for a Custom Language

How interpreters and compilers work

Languages and grammars

Your first PEG parser

Evaluating expressions

Building an Abstract Syntax Tree

Building a better interface

Evaluating variables

Adding logical expressions

Comparisons

The "and" and "or" operators

Conditions

Working with structured data

Working with objects

Optimizing the interpreter by adding a compiler

Verifying performance improvements

Chapter 9: Reactive Extensions in PHP

An introduction to observables

Introduction to event loop and ReactiveX

delay

defer

Scheduler

recursive-scheduler

map and flatMap

reduce

toArray

merge

do

scan

zip

Parsing logs through a Reactive scheduler

Event queues with ReactiveX

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 1, 2017).

ISBN:

9781785885242

1785885243

OCLC:

966104771