Description

A one day workshop for PHP programmers without Object Orientation experience, introducing them to the concepts of OO and the PHP5 OO implementation.

Duration

One day

Pre-Requisites

Some PHP experience required.

Basic Overview:

The course provides an overview of object orientation in PHP4, and then delves into the new features and functionality introduced in PHP5. Mention of PHP4 is only made in-case the programmer encounters legacy environments/applications

It then moves on to cover various Object Oriented aspects (What is an Object and syntax?) to inheritance (multiple vs single) and then to interfaces and abstract classes

• Object Oriented programming – the theory
• What objects are
• How do you choose what should be an object?
• Encapsulation / Information Hiding / Coupling and Cohesion
• OO Design
• Very quick overview of Objects in PHP4
• Objects in PHP5 (syntax, exceptions, single inheritance, abstract classes, interfaces)
• Advanced PHP5 specific functionality (magic methods like __get, __set, __call) and pass-by-reference/cloning)
• SPL – The Standard PHP Library – overview of functionality and features
• Common design patterns in PHP
• Model / View / Controller (MVC),
• Strategy,
• Factory,
• Decorator,
• Circuit Breaker
• Singleton,
• Command,
• Observer
• Dependency Injection and DI Container example
• Changes in PHP5.3 (namespaces, anonymous functions and closures)
• 1 hour exercise migrating “legacy” example into an MVC style application using e.g Smarty or the Zend Framework
• 2 hour exercise building a shopping cart using various design patterns and OO principals – the exercise guides the delegate through use of Factory, Singleton, Observer and MVC patterns.

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