CHAPTER 20Objects, Patterns, Practice

From object basics through design pattern principles, and on to tools and techniques, this book has has focused on a single objective: the successful PHP project.

In this chapter, I recap some of the topics I have covered and points made throughout the book:

  • PHP and objects: How PHP continues to increase its support for object-oriented programming, and how to leverage these features.
  • Objects and design: Summarizing some OO design principles.
  • Patterns: What makes them cool.
  • Pattern principles: A recap of the guiding object-oriented principles that underlie many patterns.
  • The tools for the job: Revisiting the tools I have described, and checking out a few I haven't.

Objects

As you saw in Chapter 2, for a ...

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