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7 Responses to “PHP Objects, Patterns, & Practice 2nd Edition”

1. Raghnall on August 6th, 2009

   I went from Agnostic to Convert in one easily understood book. I have gone from being a competent procedural programmer who dabbled in objects, to being a staunch advocate of PHP objects and patterns. If you don’t quite get what the OOP fuss is about, read this book and you won’t look back. You’ll start every sentence with “code to an interface, not an implementation”

2. Zeroun on August 6th, 2009

   3.0 out of 5 stars
   not bad
   Very good at explaining OO PHP and the basic patterns, but when it gets to the more complex patterns everything falls apart…

3. Jael on August 6th, 2009

   I work as a PHP developer in a local company. I wanted to take my PHP to the next level – to gain an intimate understanding of the object oriented features of the language. To find out how to develop larger systems while still keeping maintainability. I feel so lucky to have chosen this book. I am half way through it and already I know so much more about PHP, I am using interfaces, abstract classes, and the strategy pattern in my real work. If you are like I was: pretty good at PHP with some object oriented knowledge (mostly in other languages) and you want to bring your PHP to speed this book is *perfect*. Another thing I really like is that for the first time in a programming book the examples seem highly relevant, easily understandible, without being drawn out, long-winded, over complicated or full of caveats. I can actually read many pages at a time without my eyes glazing over! I want to personally thank the author for such a quality title, and thoroughly recommend it to anyone wanting PHP books.

4. Zaila on August 6th, 2009

   5.0 out of 5 stars
   Fantastic book!
   This book is not for the beginner but for those interested in learning or advancing their knowledge of Object Oriented Programming, Design Patterns and general good practice…

5. Anonymous on August 6th, 2009

   My programming background stems from procedural languages (xBase, clipper etc) popular in the late eighties. With Clipper 5 I had danced briefly with objects but likened them purely to a prettier way of dealing with big data structures. Hey, I get a mention in the first chapter! Well, not me personally, but my type of programmer. Better yet, it wasn’t preceeded by the word “dinosaur”. Instead, I was told, and then shown, how OOP is far more than just a tidy way of handling arrays. And I was shown this with nice, short, stubby examples. Best of all, the author recognised that OOP may not suit all requirements, and indeed, decent systems can be written without it. This is by no means a “Yah boo” text unlike a lot of the online OOP guides you may have read. I haven’t finished this book yet, but already it has far exceeded my expectations. I am an experienced programmer, but pretty much new to proper oop, so was looking for a book which would start with the oop basics but then do some real serious grown-up stuff with it. I have not been let down.

6. Tyanne on August 6th, 2009

   5.0 out of 5 stars
   Every php developer should get a copy
   As hinted in the title, this near 500 page tome is split into three parts: objects, patterns and [best] practice.

7. Bastien on August 6th, 2009

   5.0 out of 5 stars
   An excellent book
   This book is an excellent bible on how to write PHP software well. It explains all the things you thought you knew, but didn’t.

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