About the book
This book aims serving students, developers, technical leads and professionals who wish to begin server side, web application development, using PHP 7.x. This book explores PHP 7.x and systematically illustrates its various specifications with plenty of real world examples with complete code spec and diagrams to make it easier to follow. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced web developer, you should find this book, a valuable and accessible knowledge base for creating Web solutions.
This book’s example code specs are available at www.sharanamshah.com: Example illustrated code specs in the book. PDF for installation process of Apache web server and MySQL database.
About the Author
The author Sharanam Shah [www.sharanamshah.com] has 15+ years of IT experience as a Developer, Database Designer, Technical Writer, Systems Analyst and a Lead Architect. He currently consults with several software houses in Mumbai, India, to help them design and manage database application. Vaishali Shah, his wife, co-author and a Technical Writer by profession, has a rich experience of designing, developing and managing database systems. Their desire to share the knowledge they’ve acquired over all these years working together and perhaps partially to keep it available and alive made them co-author and publish several books, most of them tightly focused on commercial application development using software tools.
Table of Contents
- Getting started: Thinking computationally
- Know your value: Simple values, variables, and types
- Decisive code: Booleans, decisions, and loops
- Providing some structure: Lists and iteration
- Getting functional: Functions and abstraction 4b Putting some order in your data: Sorting and nested iteration
- Putting it all together: Text, strings, and heuristics
- Getting modular: Modules, methods, classes, and objects
- Beyond iteration and indices: Recursion and dictionaries
- Persistence: Saving and retrieving files
- You really should get out more: Using web APIs
- Getting interactive: Widgets, events, and emergent behavior
- A trip to Objectville: Object-oriented programming
