Object-Oriented Programming with PHP5 Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: OOP vs. Procedural Programming
Chapter 2: Kick-Starting OOP
Chapter 3: More OOP
Chapter 4: Design Patterns
Chapter 5: Reflection and Unit Testing
Chapter 6: Standard PHP Library
Chapter 7: Database in an OOP Way
Chapter 8: Cooking XML with OOP
Chapter 9: Building Better with MVC
Index

• Introduction

• Chapter 1: OOP vs. Procedural Programming
  • Introduction to PHP
    • Ready, Set, Go
  • A Little History of OOP in PHP
  • Procedural vs. OO Coding Style
  • Benefits of OOP
  • Dissection of an Object
  • Difference of OOP in PHP4 and PHP5
  • Some Basic OO Terms
  • General Coding Conventions
  • Summary

• Chapter 2: Kick-Starting OOP
  • Let's Bake Some Objects
    • Accessing Properties and Methods from Inside the Class
  • Using an Object
  • Modifiers
  • Constructors and Destructors
  • Class Constants
  • Extending a Class [Inheritance]
    • Overriding Methods
    • Preventing from Overriding
    • Preventing from Extending
  • Polymorphism
  • Interface
  • Abstract Class
  • Static Method and Properties
  • Accessor Methods
  • Using Magic Methods to Set/Get Class Properties
  • Magic Methods for Overloading Class Methods
  • Visually Representing a Class
  • Summary

• Chapter 3: More OOP
  • Class Information Functions
    • Checking if a Class Already Exists
    • Finding Currently Loaded Classes
    • Finding out if Methods and Properties Exists
    • Checking the Type of Class
    • Finding Out the Class Name
  • Exception Handling
    • Collecting all PHP Errors as Exception
  • Iterators
  • ArrayObject
  • Array to Object
  • Accessing Objects in Array Style
  • Serialization
    • Magic Methods in Serialization
  • Object Cloning
  • Autoloading Classes or Classes on Demand
  • Method Chaining
  • Life Cycle of an Object in PHP and Object Caching
  • Summary

• Chapter 4: Design Patterns
  • You Might have Done this Before…
  • Strategy Pattern
  • Factory Pattern
  • Abstract Factory
  • Adapter Pattern
  • Singleton Pattern
  • Iterator Pattern
  • Observer Pattern
  • Proxy Pattern or Lazy Loading
  • Decorator Pattern
  • Active Record Pattern
  • Facade Pattern
  • Summary

• Chapter 5: Reflection and Unit Testing
  • Reflection
    • ReflectionClass
  • ReflectionMethod
  • ReflectionParameter
  • ReflectionProperty
  • Unit Testing
    • Benefits of Unit Testing
    • A small Introduction to Vulnerable Bugs
    • Preparing for Unit Testing
    • Starting Unit Testing
    • Testing an Email Validator Object
    • Unit Testing for Everyday Script
    • Test Driven Development
      • Writing Multiple Assertions
    • PHPUnit API
  • Summary

• Chapter 6: Standard PHP Library
  • Available Objects in SPL
  • ArrayObject
  • ArrayIterator
  • DirectoryIterator
  • RecursiveDirectoryIterator
  • RecursiveIteratorIterator
  • AppendIterator
  • FilterIterator
  • LimitIterator
  • NoRewindIterator
  • SeekableIterator
  • RecursiveIterator
  • SPLFileObject
  • SPLFileInfo
  • SPLObjectStorage
  • Summary

• Chapter 7: Database in an OOP Way
  • Introduction to MySQLi
    • Connecting to MySQL in an OO Way
    • Selecting Data in an OO Way
    • Updating Data in an OO Way
    • Prepared Statements
      • Basic Prepared Statements
      • Prepared Statements with Variables
    • Using BLOB with Prepared Statements
    • Executing Stored Procedure with MySQLi and PHP
  • PDO
    • DSN Settings for Different Databases Engines
    • Using Prepared Statements with PDO
    • Calling Stored Procedures
    • Other Interesting Functions
  • Introduction to Data Abstraction Layers
    • ADOdb
      • Installing ADOdb
      • Connecting to Different Databases
      • Basic Database Operations using ADOdb
      • Inserting, Deleting, and Updating Records
      • Executing Prepared Statements
    • MDB2
      • Installing MDB2
      • Connecting to Database
      • Executing Prepared Statements
  • Introduction to ActiveRecord
    • Creating a New Record via ActiveRecord
    • Selecting and Updating Data
  • Summary

• Chapter 8: Cooking XML with OOP
  • Formation of XML
  • Introduction to SimpleXML
    • Parsing Documents
    • Accessing Attributes
    • Parsing Flickr Feeds using SimpleXML
    • Managing CDATA Sections using SimpleXML
    • XPath
    • DOM API
  • Modifying Existing Documents
  • Other Useful Functions
  • Summary

• Chapter 9: Building Better with MVC
  • What is MVC?
  • Planning for the Project
  • Designing the Bootstrap File
  • Adding Database Support
    • Drivers
  • Building Applications over our Framework
    • Authentication Controller
  • Summary

• Index