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Mastering PHP 7

Mastering PHP 7

By : Branko Ajzele
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Mastering PHP 7

Mastering PHP 7

4.7 (7)
By: Branko Ajzele

Overview of this book

PHP is a server-side scripting language that is widely used for web development. With this book, you will get a deep understanding of the advanced programming concepts in PHP and how to apply it practically The book starts by unveiling the new features of PHP 7 and walks you through several important standards set by PHP Framework Interop Group (PHP-FIG). You’ll see, in detail, the working of all magic methods, and the importance of effective PHP OOP concepts, which will enable you to write effective PHP code. You will find out how to implement design patterns and resolve dependencies to make your code base more elegant and readable. You will also build web services alongside microservices architecture, interact with databases, and work around third-party packages to enrich applications. This book delves into the details of PHP performance optimization. You will learn about serverless architecture and the reactive programming paradigm that found its way in the PHP ecosystem. The book also explores the best ways of testing your code, debugging, tracing, profiling, and deploying your PHP application. By the end of the book, you will be able to create readable, reliable, and robust applications in PHP to meet modern day requirements in the software industry.
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Debugging, Tracing, and Profiling

Using React


React is a library that makes it possible to event-driven programming in PHP, much like JavaScript does. Based on the reactor pattern, it essentially acts as an event loop, allowing various other third-party libraries using its components to write asynchronous code.

The page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactor_pattern states, The reactor design pattern is an event handling pattern for handling service requests delivered concurrently to a service handler by one or more inputs

The library is available at https://github.com/reactphp/react

Installing React

The React library is available as a Composer react/react package. Assuming we are still in our project directory where we installed RxPHP, we can simply execute the following command in order to add React to our project:

composer require react/react

This should give us an output similar to the following one:

We can see quite a few interesting react/* packages being pulled in, react/event-loop being one of them. The messages suggesting...

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