Professional PHP5

by ED lecky-Thompson, Heow Eide-Goodman, Steven D. Nowicki

What is this book about? With the release of PHP 5 and the Zend Engine 2, PHP finally graduates from it earliest days as a lightweight scripting syntax to an powerful object oriented programming language that can hold its own against the Java and .NET architectures that currently dominate corporate software development. This book has a pragmatic focus on how to use PHP in the larger scheme of enterprise-class software development. What does this book cover? Unlike Java or .NET, there is little discussion of the application of design patterns, component architectures, and best-practices to the development of applications using PHP. Software written in the absence of this sort of higher-order architecture will never be able to match the robust frameworks that Java and .NET ship with out of the box. This book addresses this issue by covering the following  

Genres: Programming

668 pages, Paperback

First published November 26, 2004

Reviews

[Christian Tjhai · Rating 5 out of 5]

For you developers out there, this book is a must. Even though this book is about PHP5, but actually you can apply the concepts and logics written in this book in any programming languages.