PHPC3 | Professional PHP Development with Design Patterns

Overview of the PHP object model

• History of the PHP object model
• The PHP's object model compared to Java's model
• Classes and interfaces
• Composition versus inheritance

Discovery of principles of software architecture

• Overview of the PHP Standard Library (SPL)
• Principles of software engineering
• Coupling and cohesion
• Design patterns families
• Software architecture
• SOLID and STUPID principles
• Dependency injection principle

Practical design patterns

• The iterator
• The facade
• The singleton
• The strategy
• The factory
• The composite
• The décorateur
• The adapter
• The observer

Introduction to patterns of enterprise architecture

• The MVC pattern
• The lazy loading pattern
• The data mapper pattern
• The active record pattern
• The null object pattern

Unit testing with design patterns

• Introduction to unit testing
• Introduction to PHPUnit
• Installing PHPUnit
• Practicing unit testing with PHPUnit
• Generating code coverage reports