PHPC2 | Mastering Object Oriented Progamming in PHP 8

Introduction to Object Oriented Programming

• Introduction to the OOP main concepts
  
• Understanding the benefits of using OOP
• Discovering the main principles of OOP
• Learning how to think and design code with the object approach
  
• Discovering all new object oriented features introduced since PHP 5.3
  

Fundamentals of Object Oriented Programming

• Understanding the concepts of classes and objects
• Setting the state of an object with its properties
• Reading and changing the state of an object thanks to its methods
• Instanciating and initializing an object with its constructor
• Destroying an object the right way with its destructor
• Ensuring object state encapsulation thanks to attributes and methods scopes
• Understanding the difference between instance and class scope
• Specializing classes thanks to the inheritance principle
• Leveraging classes to define new advanced data structures and types

Advanced Object Oriented Programming Concepts

• Generalizing data structures types with abstract classes and methods
• Preventing class and methods specialization
• Overriding and overloading the behavior of a parent class' method
• Handling errors properly with the exception mechanism
• Design implementation contracts thanks to interfaces
• Overriding implicit default objects behaviors with « magic methods »
• Setting up mechanisms to automatically load class definitions files
• Organizing data structures thanks to namespaces
• Refactoring reusable chunks of object oriented code into « traits »
  

Leveraging the PHP 8 SPL

Practicing the PHP 8 Native Object Oriented Tools

• Manipulating relational databases with PHP Data Objects aka PDO
• Traversing the data of an XML file thanks to the SimpleXML objects
• Manipulating and formatting dates with the DateTime objects
• Accessing files informations thanks to the SplFileInfo objects
  

Acquire Object Oriented Development Best Practices

• Commenting and annotating code thanks to the « phpdoc » syntax
• Mastering the SOLID main principles
• Programming against interfaces
• Promoting composition over inheritance
• Discovering the main GoF design patterns
• Introducing automated code unit testing with PHPUnit