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Backed by a tireless development community, PHP has been a model of language evolution over its 10+ year history. Borne from a contract developer's pet project, these days you'll find PHP powering many of the world's largest web sites, including Yahoo!, Digg, EA Games, and Lycos.

PHP Objects, Patterns, and Practice, Second Edition shows you how to meld the power of PHP with the sound enterprise development techniques embraced by professional programmers. Going well beyond the basics of object-oriented development, you'll learn about advanced topics such as working with static methods and properties, abstract classes, interfaces, design patterns, exception handling, and more. You'll also be exposed to key tools such as PEAR, CVS, Phing, and phpDocumentor.

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Average Rating: 5 out of 5 rating Based on 3 Ratings

"With out a doubt, the best advanced PHP book " - by nvoyageur on 14-MAY-2010
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Matt does such a great job of starting off simple and building in complexity gradually. He obviously knows his stuff about programming patterns and is able to share it with good examples and illustrations.

I'm a seasoned PHP programmer, but only recently in the last few years learned OOP. This is the book for your if you want take a step toward programming webapps in PHP.

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