Taking care to focus solely on those topics that will have the most impact on experienced PHP developers, Pro PHP is written for readers seeking to take their understanding of both PHP and sound software development practices to the next level. Advanced object-oriented features, documentation, debugging, software patterns, and the Standard PHP Library are just a few of the topics covered in extensive detail.Author and noted PHP expert Kevin McArthur also examines emerging practices and trends such as the MVC architecture as applied to PHP, with special emphasis placed upon the increasingly popular Zend Framework.
With Ajax and web services crucial to the success of today's web applications, the book concludes with several chapters covering JSON, the SOAP extension, and advanced web services topics.
If you're seeking to go beyond the basics, Pro PHP is the book for you.
About the Author
Kevin McArthur is an open source developer in Edmonton Alberta. He is a self-taught entrepreneur and has been running a very successful PHP application development studio for over 7 years.
His company, StormTide Digital Studios, has worked with industry in the US and Canada to provide scaling solutions for web statistics, VoIP, and print automation. An avid IRC user, he helps to administer one of the largest PHP support organizations, PHP EFnet.
Kevin's contributions to open source projects including the Zend Framework have made him a well known authority in the industry. He has written several articles for PHPRiot.com on topics such as Reflection, SPL, OOP and PostgreSQL.
Outside of the PHP world, Kevin is also the inventor of a push-technology platform for .NET called Stream.
