PHP Training UK - Object Orientation With PHP5 Course

Object Orientation with PHP5

Duration

One day

Description

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

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
  • 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,
    • Decorator,
    • Singleton,
    • Command,
    • Observer
  • 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

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