Ali - Mastering PHP design patterns develop robust and reusable code using a multitude of design patterns for PHP 7

Sworup Shakya has worked as a web developer for more than ten years. He started his career as a Flash ActionScript developer, before moving on to ASP.NET MVC, and finally to PHP. During his time as a developer, Sworup worked extensively with frameworks, be it ASP.NET MVC or AngularJS or Laravel. However, while he was working as an ActionScript developer, he had to create one, which gave him knowledge of design patterns and OOP concepts that has helped him improve in order to be able to work on the frameworks he had to work on later.

Sworup received his Bachelor of Information Technology degree from Purbanchal University in Nepal. He currently works with Zimris Technologies Nepal Pvt. Ltd., a subsidiary of Zimris, LLC, as a senior developer.

Sworup likes to keep on top of the current technologies, keeping an eye on StackOverflow, Laracasts forums, and occasional podcasts. He posts on these mediums whenever he can and is looking to start a technical blog documenting his experiences at http://sworup.com.np/. You can reach him at sworup.shakya@gmail.com.

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Have you ever been to a PHP conference? If not, Id highly recommend it, it is the closest you can get to a living and breathing PHP community. A few weeks ago, I flew from London to St. Louis, Misouri, to speak at php[tek] (the PHP conference run by php[architect]). After the conference, there was a small tradition within the PHP community known as WurstCon. Essentially, hundreds of PHP conference attendees cram themselves into a small hot dog shop and host a hot dog convention, often to the complete surprise of the staff there. Likewise, community nights at PHP events are the warmest and most accepting community occasions youll ever run into; the PHP community is surely one that other development language communities envy.

As of PHP 7, the PHP project has changed dramatically; but what I love, remains strong. The warmth you will feel at any PHP conference, the openness in the documentation, and adoption in the language. Yes, there are practices that are undoubtedly bad within PHP itself; however, think of what the PHP community has recently achieved, ranging from PHPUnit to Composer. Throughout this book, bear in mind the improvements in PHP 7, a few of which Ill share with you.The trajectory of the project is now certainly upwards, and lets not forget that this wasnt always true. The PHP community has learned its lessons from the past, whilst the language maintains the flexibility to write what is bad.

This book will seek to impart strong software engineering skills to you with the focus on implementing them in PHP. At the time of publishing this book, there is a certain void and a necessity for this kind of material. This book seeks to be the lighthouse that will not only demonstrate software design theory, but also seek to impart practical information of real value to improve the quality and maintainability of the code you write. This book leaves no stone unturned throughout the software development cycle and will seek to confront the reasons as to why the majority of software projects fail whilst also addressing design, redesign, and safeguard effective code.