Learning PHP 7 High Performance - Couverture souple

Hussain, Altaf

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1785882260 ISBN 13 : 9781785882265

Editeur : Packt Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

Improve the performance of your PHP application to ensure the application users aren't left waiting

About This Book

• Make the optimum use of PHP coding to improve your programming productivity
• Leverage the potential of PHP for server-side programming, memory management, and object-oriented programming
• Packed with real-life examples to help the readers implement concepts as they learn

Who This Book Is For

This book is for those who have basic experience in PHP programming. If you are developing performance-critical applications, then this book is for you.

What You Will Learn

• Setup high performance development and production environment for PHP 7
• Discover new OOP features in PHP 7 to achieve high performance
• Improve your PHP applications' performance
• Attain improved database performance
• Benchmark PHP applications to optimize them
• Write quality code by learning to improve code reusability, simplicity, and expressiveness
• Get rid of the bottlenecks in your PHP 7 applications by writing PHP code optimally
• Tackle issues related to web applications, such as high user dependency and large datasets

In Detail

PHP is a great language for building web applications. It is essentially a server-side scripting language that is also used for general-purpose programming. PHP 7 is the latest version, providing major backward-compatibility breaks and focusing on high performance and speed.

This fast-paced introduction to PHP 7 will improve your productivity and coding skills. The concepts covered will allow you, as a PHP programmer, to improve the performance standards of your applications. We will introduce you to the new features in PHP 7 and then will run through the concepts of object-oriented programming (OOP) in PHP 7. Next, we will shed some light on how to improve your PHP 7 applications' performance and database performance. Through this book, you will be able to improve the performance of your programs using the various benchmarking tools discussed.

At the end, the book discusses some best practices in PHP programming to help you improve the quality of your code.

Style and approach

The book is a step-by-step guide to improve the quality of your code in PHP through real-time examples. The book takes a practical approach to improving the quality of your code.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Improve the performance of your PHP application to ensure the application users aren't left waiting

About This Book

• Make the optimum use of PHP coding to improve your programming productivity
• Leverage the potential of PHP for server-side programming, memory management, and object-oriented programming
• Packed with real-life examples to help the readers implement concepts as they learn

Who This Book Is For

This book is for those who have basic experience in PHP programming. If you are developing performance-critical applications, then this book is for you.

What You Will Learn

• Setup high performance development and production environment for PHP 7
• Discover new OOP features in PHP 7 to achieve high performance
• Improve your PHP applications' performance
• Attain improved database performance
• Benchmark PHP applications to optimize them
• Write quality code by learning to improve code reusability, simplicity, and expressiveness
• Get rid of the bottlenecks in your PHP 7 applications by writing PHP code optimally
• Tackle issues related to web applications, such as high user dependency and large datasets

In Detail

PHP is a great language for building web applications. It is essentially a server-side scripting language that is also used for general-purpose programming. PHP 7 is the latest version, providing major backward-compatibility breaks and focusing on high performance and speed.

This fast-paced introduction to PHP 7 will improve your productivity and coding skills. The concepts covered will allow you, as a PHP programmer, to improve the performance standards of your applications. We will introduce you to the new features in PHP 7 and then will run through the concepts of object-oriented programming (OOP) in PHP 7. Next, we will shed some light on how to improve your PHP 7 applications' performance and database performance. Through this book, you will be able to improve the performance of your programs using the various benchmarking tools discussed.

At the end, the book discusses some best practices in PHP programming to help you improve the quality of your code.

Style and approach

The book is a step-by-step guide to improve the quality of your code in PHP through real-time examples. The book takes a practical approach to improving the quality of your code.

Biographie de l'auteur

Altaf Hussain

Altaf Hussain is a fullstack web and mobile app developer with over 6 years of experience in PHP development. He received his degree in electrical engineering and specialized in computer and communications from Pakistan. Altaf is an electrical engineer on paper and a software engineer by heart. He worked as a system programmer in his team, developing control software for small test robots using assembly languages and C. After this, Altaf got interested in web technologies and never looked back. He has worked with numerous PHP frameworks, including Zend, Laravel, and Yii, and open source systems such as Drupal, WordPress, PrestaShop, and Magento. Altaf designed and built two proprietary CMS systems with full support for multiple languages and models, permissions, and translations, as well as different kinds of multilingual content management. Now, he works in the fashion industry as the head of IT at shy7lo.com, where his role is to manage the development team on the premises and abroad, in order to manage Magento and Laravel applications development and the deployment life cycle. Besides web apps, Altaf has worked on iOS and Android applications, including building APIs in Lumen. He is a big fan of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and successfully uses it in different applications. Altaf actively researches on website performance and has deployed the latest technologies, such as PHP 7, NGINX, Redis, Varnish, and others, in production environments for high-speed and scalable applications. He is a Debian lover and uses it for all of his web application deployments. When not working, Altaf writes articles for programmingtunes.com and techyocean.com. He has reviewed several books for Packt Publishing, including Learning Phalcon PHP, Mastering jQuery Mobile, and PrestaShop Module Development.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Packt Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1785882260
• ISBN 13: 9781785882265
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 202
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible