Bierer Doug - PHP 7 : real world application development : use new features of PHP 7 to solve practical, real-world problems faced by PHP developers like yourself every day : a course in three modules.

, PHP 7 Programming Cookbook, This module demonstrates intermediate to advanced PHP techniques with a focus on PHP 7. Each recipe is designed to solve practical, real-world problems faced by PHP developers like yourself every day. It also cover new ways of writing PHP code made possible only in version 7. In addition, we discuss backward-compatibility breaks and give you plenty of guidance on when and where PHP 5 code needs to be changed to produce the correct results when running under PHP 7. This module also incorporates the latest PHP 7.x features.By the end of the module, you will be equipped with the tools and skills required to deliver efficient applications for your websites and enterprises

, Learning PHP 7 High Performance , This module is fast-paced introduction to PHP 7 will improve your productivity and coding skills. The concepts covered will allow you, as a PHP programmer, to improve the performance standards of your applications. We will introduce you to the new features in PHP 7 and then will run through the concepts of object-oriented programming (OOP) in PHP 7. Next, we will shed some light on how to improve your PHP 7 applications performance and database performance. Through this module, you will be able to improve the performance of your programs using the various benchmarking tools discussed in the module. At the end,module discusses some best practices in PHP programming to help you improve the quality of your code

, Modernizing Legacy Applications in PHP , This module will show you how to modernize your application in terms of practice and technique, rather than in terms of using tools such as frameworks and libraries, by extracting and replacing its legacy artifacts. We will use a step-by-step approach, moving slowly and methodically, to improve your application from the ground up. Well show you how dependency injection can replace both the new and global dependencies. Well also show you how to change the presentation logic to view files and the action logic to a controller. Moreover, well keep your application running the whole time. Each completed step in the process will keep your codebase fully operational with higher quality. When we are done, you will be able to breeze through your code like the wind. Your code will be autoloaded, dependency-injected, unit-tested, layer-separated, and front-controlled. Most of the very limited code we will add to your application is specific to this module. We will be improving ourselves as programmers, as well as improving the quality of our legacy application.

Module 1:

All you need, to successfully implement the recipes presented in this module will be a computer, 100MB of extra disk space, and a text or code editor (not a word processor!). The first chapter will cover how to set up a PHP 7 development environment. Having a web server is optional as PHP 7 includes a development web server. An Internet connection is not required, but it might be useful to download code (such as the set of PSR-7 interfaces), and review PHP 7.x documentation.

Module 2:

Any hardware specification that is compliant to run the latest versions of the following software should be enough to get through this module:

Apache JMeter, ApacheBench, Siege, and Git

Module 3:

You will have refer Chapter 2, Prerequisites of this module to understand the basic hardware and software requirements needed on this module. This chapter gives a detailed description of the requirements.