PHP Projects: Finding Real World Solutions with PHP (Udemy.com)

Build product ready applications and find real world solutions with PHP

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Created by: Packt Publishing

Produced in 2016

What you will learn

Quickly create isolated development virtual machines for your projects
Learn the new features of PHP 7 that make it well suited to quickly create web applications
Use PHP's object oriented features to implement the Model-View-Controller pattern
Write tests in PHP Unit to create an automated test suite for your application
Use test driven development to help produce and refactor reusable code in a web application
Convert single server sites using technologies like file backed storage into highly scalable sites that can be ran on multiple servers
Use a micro framework called silex to quickly develop complex web applications
Use PHP to create real-time streaming functionality using the Comet model

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Course Description

The latest release of PHP has created a massive spark amongdevelopers, needless to say how popular a back-end scripting language itis. With this course, you'll get a deep insight into 3 cool projectsthat are built on PHP, and you'll learn different ways to improve yourdevelopment.
Once you're familiar with setting up your environment and using thebasic syntax of PHP, we'll begin with an entry-level project, wherewe'll show you how to build a URL shortener. You'll understand how tomake effective use of MVC and how to connect up to the database. Fromthere, we'll show you how to automate testing for our project and how tocreate functional tests. Next, we'll jump on to building anauthentication platform, where you'll be introduced to Test DrivenDevelopment and CRUD, to create persistence storage. We'll show you thebeauty of using the REST API and you'll also learn how to alleviate theload on the database. Finally, we'll build a social sharing platform,where we'll tighten the security and let users interact with each otherin real-time.
With this course in your hands, you'll be confident of the practicaluse cases of PHP and will be ready to take your development skills tothe next level.
About the Author

Michael Lively has worked in a variety of roles in thesoftware development industry for over 15 years, from developer todevelopment director. He has worked on a variety of different projectsand a variety of different technologies over that time, from smallhome-grown sites serving a handful of regular users to large enterpriseplatforms serving millions of consumers.
His current job is with Slickdeals.net, the largest and most trusteddeal sharing community and a routine presence in the top 100 sites inthe US. In addition to his professional work, he has been an activemember of the PHP open source community. Some of his contributionsinclude the database extension for PHPUnit and an alternative mockingframework for PHP called Phake.

Who this course is for:

The video is for all PHP programmers. It will benefit not only begineers but also expert programmers. The viewer will learn how to solve important problems relating to scalbility and performance through the help of projects.

Time: 5h

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