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Bring the power of functional programming to your PHP applications. From performance optimizations to concurrency, improved testability to code brevity, functional programming has a host of benefits when compared to traditional imperative programming.
Part one of Pro Functional PHP Programming takes you through the basics of functional programming, outlining the key concepts and how they translate into standard PHP functions and code. Part two takes this theory and shows you the strategies for implementing it to solve real problems in your new or existing PHP applications.
Functional programming is popular in languages such as Lisp, Scheme and Clojure, but PHP also contains all you need to write functional code. This book will show you how to take advantage of functional programming in your own projects, utilizing the PHP programming language that you already know.
What Youll Learn

Discover functional programming in PHP
Work with functional programming functions
Design strategies for high-performance applications
Manage business logic with functions
Use functional programming in object-oriented and procedural applications
Employ helper libraries in your application
Process big data with functional PHP

Who This Book Is For

Programmers and web developers with experience of PHP who are looking to get more out of their PHP coding and be able to do more with PHP.

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Part I
Functional Programming in PHP 7

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1. Introduction

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Functional programming isnt something that is often associated with PHP. Yet for quite a while PHP has had all the features necessary to create software using the functional paradigm. In this book, youll take a look at what functional programming is, how to do it in PHP, and the different ways in which you can use it to improve your PHP software.

Who Is This Book For?

This book isnt an introduction to PHP itself; it assumes you have some basic (or, indeed, advanced) experience in PHP scripting. You dont need to be an expert to follow along; Ill cover all the key concepts in PHP youll need to know to be able to implement functional designs in your code and point you in the direction of resources such as web sites and other books that you can use to learn or investigate any related concepts that I dont cover directly.

Absolute PHP beginners aside, this book is suitable for all programmers. Whether you have a pressing need to learn functional programming (perhaps youve taken over a functional PHP code base) or you are just interested in finding out what the buzz around functional programming is all about, there is something in this book for you. Theres even likely to be something for those skeptical about creating software using the functional programming paradigm. I think that most programmers will find useful lessons and code patterns to take away from the functional programming style that will enhance their object-oriented or procedural programming work. If all else fails, knowledge of functional programming looks good on your rsum!

What Is Functional Programming ?

Functional programming is a declarative programming paradigm that abstracts code into pure, immutable, side-effect-free functions, allowing the programmer to compose such functions together to make programs that are easy to reason about.

That is my definition of functional programming. Ask five other functional programmers to define functional programming and youll get four more answers (two just copied the same answer from Wikipedia). Theres no standard definition; different people and different programming languages implement functional programming elements differently. These differences are partly because of the practicalities of the language in question and sometimes because of the target platforms, data, and usage scenarios, but often they come down to what I call programming religion: a fixed, sometimes irrational, but often deeply held belief of how a particular paradigm should be . Even within the small community of PHP functional programmers, you wont find an exact consensus. In PHP, functional programming is not a core concept, but even in languages where it is (e.g., Lisp, Scala, etc.), there are many related understandings of what constitutes true functional programming. While that may sound problematic, youll still know it when you see it, and when it gets woolly around the edges, you can choose to define it in any way you see fit!

PHP isnt a pure functional programming language, but you can still use it for functional programming (which is good; otherwise this book wouldnt be very long). A few elements of what some purists consider to be essential functional programming concepts are harder to implement with PHPs standard syntax, so its perhaps slightly more accurate to say that you can program in a functional programming style in PHP.

Lets now look a little more in depth at what functional programming actually is in practice. Functional programming is a declarative style of programming, which means you specify what you want it to do rather than how you want to do it. Its a higher level of abstraction than you may be used to with OO or procedural programming. However, you almost certainly use declarative programming on a day-to-day basis when using SQL, HTML, regular expressions, and similar languages. Consider the SQL snippet shown in Listing .

SELECT forename,

Surname

FROM users

WHERE username = 'rob'

AND password = 'password1';

Listing 1-1.

declarative.sql

This is telling your database server what you want it to do (select the real name based on super-secret security credentials), but you dont tell it how to do it. You dont tell it the following:

Where to look on disk for the data
How to parse or search the data for matching records
How to determine whether a record matches your criteria
How to extract the relevant fields from the record

And so on. You simply tell it what you want it to achieve for you.

Now obviously, at some point, you need to tell the computer how to do something. With the SQL example in Listing , you do that by getting some rather clever people to write database management software (DBMS) for you. In functional programming, youll tend to need to write the implementation code yourself, but to make it a manageable task, you break that down into the smallest possible chunks and then use a hierarchical chain of declarative function calls to tell the computer what to do with that code. If you use the Composer dependency management system, you will already be using a similar paradigm: there are many libraries of code available that abstract away the tasks that you need to do; you simply compose a list of libraries together to do what you want. In functional programming, you do exactly the same; you take functions that do something (like the libraries Composer provides) and compose them together into a program.

Having a program that is essentially a list of what you want to achieve sounds very good on paper, and indeed it makes it easy to understand and reason about your program. To make the idea a little more concrete, lets take a look at a small functional-style program (Listing ).

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2. Functional Programming: Key Concepts

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In this chapter, youll look at the key concepts, building blocks, and vocabulary that youll need to understand before getting started on some actual functional programming. Although you are already likely to be using functions and closures in your everyday programming, its worth taking the time to read the following sections that describe them from first principles as some of the details that you take for granted when using them in object-oriented or plain procedural programming can trip you up when applying them in the functional paradigm. As functional programming is rooted in math, youll also take a look some language that you may be unfamiliar with and see it in terms that are easy to understand for a regular programmer.

The concepts presented in this chapter, taken individually, may paint a confusing picture about what functional programming is and what benefits it can bring. For instance, Ill talk about immutability, which is essentially the inability to change a value. That seems like a drawback at first rather than a benefit, but when you draw all of these concepts together over the next couple of chapters, you will see that immutability plays a key part in the flexible recipe-like nature of functional programming and is one of the factors that allows you to easily reason about your functional code.

So, for now, try to focus on understanding the individual concepts as presented and dont worry too much about how they all fit together. Learning functional programming is much like writing functional programming codelots of small independent functions/ideas composed into an over-arching scheme that eventually does something!

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