PHP in Action: Modern Software Practices for PHP

Book: PHP in Action: Modern Software Practices for PHP

To keep programming productive and enjoyable, state-of-the-art practices and principles are essential. Object-oriented programming and design help manage complexity by keeping components cleanly separated. Unit testing helps prevent endless, exhausting debugging sessions. Refactoring keeps code supple and readable. PHP offers all this-and more.
This book shows you how to apply PHP techniques and principles to all the most common challenges of web programming, including:
*Web presentation and templates
*User interaction including the Model-View-Contoller architecture
*Input validation and form handling
*Database connection and querying and abstraction
*Object persistence