Learning PHP 7

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This is a good book that covers a wide range of PHP related topics including language specifics, design patterns, unit testing, databases and frameworks. It's not necessarily a beginner reference, but I don't believe that is its intention. It's still a very accessible text and I learned a lot from it. It will get you up to speed with modern PHP technologies and best practices.

Not detail enough. I have to guess what the author means. Typing codes following the book cannot get the results. I like to save trees but I don't like to buy a book without enough explanations. Not recommend for the beginner.

Excellent, easy to understand, start here.

Ive worked in PHP 4.x & 5.x family of programs and I find this book useless for just about everyone. If you want to code PHP 7 or want to get PHP 7 to work with your existing MySQL databases get another book. If you want instructions on to use open source programs to make programs that run on PHP 7.0 your in luck. best part is all the programs are set up on your local computer so any newbie still will not be able to use a remote server for their programs or even hints on how to set it up or even were to go for help. Chapter 3 is about the only chapter useful to a serous learner and other newbie books usually have the whole book devoted to exploring in detail what is jammed into one chapter. Now to find another book on interfacing PHP 7.0 to MySQL now that I wasted $50 on this one.

The book is very interesting, well written and with lots of sample code, which helps a lot to understand the different concepts that are explained across the book. I found specially interesting the Testing section and the MVC framework implementation sample. Hands on and easy to read book, definitely recommended!

You should have at least some fundamental programming experience to understand the concept the Author trying to convey. It is high level, yet very direct to the point with concise examples. I feel understand a lot of more what underneath MVC pattern, popular frameworks such as Laravel, and Testing. Definitely recommended to read for those who want to understand a concept, not cookbook style.

Goes into many areas and concepts including MVC, micro frameworks, full frameworks, testing, and many others. Very good survey coverage with highlighting some of the new features from PHP7. Disclaimer: I might be biased as the Technical Reviewer.

Meu terceiro livro da "série" Learning e, apesar de ser em inglês, é um ótimo livro para quem nunca viu PHP na vida. O que você aprende já dá para trabalhar.

Ottimo testo se si ha familiarità con la OOP e si vuole passare ad usarla php, sopratutto venendo da linguaggi come java il passaggio risulta indolore e di facile lettura. Il libro è molto incentrato sul linguaggio più che sulle funzionalità di libreria, per cui consiglio di integrarlo con un testo che dia maggior risalto anche a questa parte.

It bridges the gap from online tutorials that get you doing basic procedural reads and writes to databases with no scope for scaling up, to more serious books that discuss design patterns and frameworks in depth. The example code is absolutely riddled with errors and inconsistencies. It's a constant source of frustration, but at the same time I'm glad I've managed to spot them in time, or fix them once they occur, which has actually helped me in understand what is going on more than if everything worked, but I doubt this was the author's intention. It could have been a fantastic book if the author actually had someone proof read/test it. Maybe that was done early on, but if it was, there have been numerous last minute changes and hacks to the example project and code that have broken a lot of examples. It's a really tough one to recommend. I want to, but it must always come with the caveat that it's just broken in a lot of places, and that it its current state, only really caters for someone at a specific point in their learning curve. For me it fell just right. If you've made something basic, are comfortable with programming concepts in general and can spot errors and resolve them, and are left with a "now what?" feeling when trying to take on a bigger project, but don't have the resources to commit to some of the more esoteric books, this might be the one for you. If you're a total beginner, you'll struggle. Also, isn't the point of an eBook that it can be retroactively fixed? If the author is interested in sorting out, I've left notes throughout this book highlighting the mistakes and inconsistencies. It wouldn't take a lot to at least make the book correct. Half an hour at most.