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Mastering PHP 7

You're reading from Mastering PHP 7 Design, configure, build, and test professional web applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785882814

Length 536 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PHP

Tools

Serverless

Concepts

Design

Author (1):

Branko Ajzele

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Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. The All New PHP FREE CHAPTER

2. Embracing Standards

3. Error Handling and Logging

4. Magic Behind Magic Methods

5. The Realm of CLI

6. Prominent OOP Features

7. Optimizing for High Performance

8. Going Serverless

9. Reactive Programming

10. Common Design Patterns

11. Building Services

12. Working with Databases

13. Resolving Dependencies

14. Working with Packages

15. Testing the Important Bits

16. Debugging, Tracing, and Profiling

17. Hosting, Provisioning, and Deployment

PSR-7 - HTTP message interface

The HTTP protocol has been around for quite some time now. Its development was initiated by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN way back in 1989. Throughout the years, Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) defined series of standards for it, known as Requests for Comments (RFCs). The first definition of HTTP/1.1 occurred in RFC 2068 in 1997, and was later deprecated by RFC 2616 in 1999. Over a decade later, HTTP/2 was standardized in 2015. Although HTTP/2 is now supported by major web servers, HTTP/1.1 is still widely used.

The underlying HTTP communication comes down to requests and responses, commonly referred to as HTTP messages. Abstracted away from average consumers, these messages form the foundation of web development, and are therefore of interest to every web application developer. While RFC 7230, RFC 7231, and RFC 3986 spec out the details of HTTP itself, PSR-7 describes common interfaces for representing the HTTP messages...

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Authors (1)

Branko Ajzele

Branko Ajzele

Branko Ajzele is a respected and highly accomplished software developer, book author, solution specialist, consultant, and team leader. He currently works for Interactive Web Solutions Ltd (iWeb), where he holds the role of senior developer and is the director of iWeb's Croatia office. Branko holds several respected IT certifications, including Zend Certified PHP Engineer, Magento Certified Developer, Magento Certified Developer Plus, Magento Certified Solution Specialist, Magento 2 Certified Solution Specialist, Magento 2 Certified Professional Developer, to mention just a few. He was crowned the e-commerce Developer of the Year by the Digital Entrepreneur Awards in October 2014 for his excellent knowledge and expertise in e-commerce development.

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