Typed PHP
Typed PHP
Stronger Types For Cleaner Code
About the Book
PHP has a rich history and a dominant place on the web. It has achieved much despite language inconsistencies and difficulties. Bjarne Stroustrup once said: "There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses". PHP is one of those languages that everybody uses, yet that's often seen as a good reason to ignore the bad parts and just get stuff done.
I'm all for getting stuff done, and to that end I have used Plain Ol' PHP for many years. It's always bugged me how procedural PHP is, in an ecosystem of OOP libraries and frameworks. So I decided to take a deeper look at building a stronger type system on top of PHP.
That's the goal of this book. We look at using standard PHP libraries. We look at using user-land libraries. We look at using extensions and cross-compilers. All this is works towards creating a set of reusable tools which unify and ease the scalar types of PHP.
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Table of Contents
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Introduction
- Why Write This Book
- Who This Book Is For
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Procedural / Object Oriented
- Procedural Programming
- Object Oriented Programming
- Which is the best?
- Which is PHP?
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Native Function Inconsistencies
- Sporadic Underscores
- Sporadic Abbreviation
- Inconsistent Argument Order
- Regular Expression / Strings
- Nouns / Verbs
- Strange Return Values
- Conclusion
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Structure
- Boxing
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Resolving Types
- Functions
- Regular Expressions
- All Together!
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Namespace Functions
- Composer Autoload
- Future Goodies
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Optional Types
- The Null Problem
- Optional Values
- In The Wild
- Conclusion
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Extensions
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Vagrant + Phansible
- Installing
- Provisioning
- Vagrant Commands
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SPL Types
- Installing SPL Types
- Using SPL Types
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Scalar Objects
- Installing Scalar Objects
- Using Scalar Objects
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Zephir
- Installing Zephir
- Using Zephir
- Conclusion
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Vagrant + Phansible
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Design
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Which Method To Use
- Namespace Methods
- Scalar Objects / SPL Types
- Zephir
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How To Structure The Types
- Resolving Types
- Chaining
- Combining Number Types
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How To Test
- PHPUnit
- What Should We Test?
- When Should We Write Tests?
- Recommendations
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How To Package
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Make A
ReadmeFile - A Few Examples
- Testing Instructions
- Installation Instructions
- License
- Contribution Guidelines
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Make A
- Conclusion
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Which Method To Use
- Designing For The Future
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Appendices
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Extending Composer
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Example: Path Plugin
- Getting Started
- Defining Paths
- Overriding Paths
- Implications
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Example: Hook Plugin
- Getting Started
- Describing Configuration
- Altering Configuration Files
- Implications
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Example: Path Plugin
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PHP Implementation
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Functions
- Type Functions
- String Functions
- Number Functions
- Array Functions
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Functions
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Extending Composer
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