PHP 8 Basics

Take advantage of PHP 8's powerful features to create basic web applications, solve code tests (required for most job interviews nowadays), and begin moving towards more advanced PHP concepts. This book provides an introduction to PHP 8, including modules, attributes, JIT compiler, and union types, as well as related frameworks such as Symfony.

You will explore fundamental PHP concepts through both practical and hands-on examples. You'll not only gain a solid understanding of PHP fundamentals, but will also be prepared to handle new concepts and technologies as they emerge.

After working through the book and its associated demo code, you will be able to build your first basic web application.

What You Will Learn

• Develop web applications with PHP 8
• Use Vagrant, Docker, JSON API and more
• Work with data, form data, arrays, objections, exceptions, regex, and more

• Utilize PHP frameworks like Laravel and Symfony Who This Book Is For

  Those new to PHP 8 or PHP in general. Some prior experience in web development and DB handling is recommended.

  An in-depth PHP tutorial that will take you from beginner to pro Walks you through the building of a web application with database from scratch with extensions Includes coverage of popular PHP frameworks like Symfony, Laravel and Laminus

  Autorentext

  Gunnard Engebreth began coding at the age of 11 through a "Learning BASIC" book given to him by his father. Technology was changing fast and Gunnard rode the wave from 1200 to 56k baud modems. Logging in to BBSs, Prodigy, Compuserve, Delphi and IRC he could see the world changing and he wanted to be a part of it. He soon got involved in the ansi/demo scene, making several application generators for many groups in the 90's. Visual Basic was the next language of choice allowing him to develop "tools" for online systems such as AOL. This introduced many aspects of development, security and UI while they were still in their infancy. Once the WWW arrived via Mindspring in Atlanta, Ga. Gunnard quickly joined in the race for the web. Learning HTML, PERL and Linux (Slackware at the time) he began to build his skill-set which lead to a full-time Sysadmin position at the age of 20 (2000) at Activegrams/Silverpop. Gunnard has moved around the IT industry from SAN/NAS storage at IBM to custom Wordpress sites for marketing companies, but one thing has stayed the same, a passion for learning and problem solving. Gunnard also DJ's Drum and Bass as Section31, Playing drums and baking bread. Satej Kumar Sahu works in the role of Senior Enterprise Architect at Honeywell. He is passionate about technology, people, and nature. He believes through technology and conscientious decision making, each of us has the power to make this world a better place. In his free time, he can be found reading books, playing basketball, and having fun with friends and family.

  Inhalt

Chapter 1: Getting Started.- Chapter 2: PHP Fundamentals.- Chapter 3: Functions and Classes.- Chapter 4: Data.- Chapter 5: Form data.- Chapter 6: Arrays.- Chapter 7: Cookies and Sessions.- Chapter 8: Objects.- Chapter 9: Exceptions, Validation, Regular Expressions.- Chapter 10: PHP and MySQL Working Together.- Chapter 11: Basic Database Design.- Chapter 12: Creating a DB with PHP and MySQL.- Chapter 13: Basic Website with DB.- Chapter 14: Basic JSON API.- Chapter 15: Intro to PHP Frameworks.- Chapter 16: Intro to Laravel.- Chapter 17: Intro to Symfony.- Chapter 18: Basic Symfony Application.- Chapter 19: Symfony Json API.- Chapter 20: Intro to Zend / Laminas Project.- Chapter 21: Basic Zend / Laminas Project Application.- Chapter 22: Zend / Laminas Project JSON API.- Chapter 23: Intro to Slim PHP.- Chapter 24: Basic Slim PHP Application.- Chapter 25: Slim PHP JSON API.- Chapter 26: Wordpress Development.- Chapter 27: Shopify Development.