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# PHP Objects, Patterns and Practice (Expert's Voice in Open Source)

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Finally - OOP for PHP made real
  

*by W***E on Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2012*

I learned object oriented programming (OOP) with C++ and have always liked the flexibility and power that is inherent in that language and approach. Having come to PHP because it was a pragmatic approach to building web sites quickly, the inelegant and inconsistent syntax of the PHP language has always been a barrier to my enjoyment of programming in PHP, however. The inconsistency has not gone away, but with this book my outlook has changed. It has opened my eyes to the many OOP features that have been added to v5.x of the language and has explained them in such a way that I can fully utilize PHP as an object oriented language. Matt goes into some depth about UML and patterns and how PHP can use those tools and approaches in the same way that other, more elegant or consistent OOP languages (Java, Python, Ruby) take advantage of them. And coming from a Java background, Matt explains the applicability of OO approaches to PHP in a way that those from other languages should be able to appreciate.I can't speak much to the formatting issues that others have mentioned, as I have mostly listened to this book on the Kindle using text to speech. And from that perspective it is a good book because I don't have to endure hearing the details from a table or code snippet that goes on and on. So in that sense having images rather than text for the tables and code snippets is a real advantage.In summary, for anyone who is still caught up in the mindset that PHP is not a good object oriented language, this can change your perspective. As many have commented, it is not an introductory book on PHP. But if you have hacked around with some PHP code and feel a need to go to the next level (and really understand what the advanced PHP frameworks like Symfony and Yii are doing behind the scenes) then I would highly recommend this book. It has forever changed my attitude towards PHP.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    OO for PHP well explained
  

*by A***N on Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2013*

I have read this book this summer.Really good explanation on why it is necessary to structure PHP using the PHP 5.x OO optionsI an a Java developer my self. Therefore the OO stuff is well known.But I had no clue on how to structure solutions for PHP...Probably the best OO book about PHP, therefore all 5 stars ***** :-)Ofcause I could wish some thing else..I use IntelliJ IDEA for my PHP development. And it has a lot of IDE support.I would like the domain sections to reflect this.IDEA will understand the SQL statement (strings) to PDO.It can color errors, It can try out statements to a concrete database.But it cannot do this if the distance between PDO and the query string is abstracted to far away. (Then it becomes gray for IDEA ...)The samples in the book, I would also like to have in a zipAbout the "kindle" .. oh I have big troubles getting used to that. I would prefer a PDF file with real pages. These 8000 kindle-pages. It makes no sense to me.The kindle APP... there is severe room for improvements. I very easy loose where I am in the book. A few un-consentrated clicks.. And you are lost. No history back..I hope (for Kindle) that there are some things I have not discovered yet in the reader...

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Kindle version has one small problem
  

*by A***H on Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2011*

In terms of content, this is an excellent book. It is probably a little too heavy for absolute PHP beginners, unless you're already well-versed in other modern programming languages. For people who only know PHP, or who don't know any languages and are looking to start with PHP, you should make sure you have a strong grasp of procedural PHP before heading this way.That being said, the Kindle version has one major issue: the code samples. They look like someone printed them out with a dot-matrix printer, then scanned them at 150 DPI, saved as BMPs to preserve all the visual errors on the scan, and pasted them into the book as images. In other words, the code samples are not text at all - they are really, really crappy images and you will often find yourself squinting to make out all the details of the fuzzy "text".This isn't a dealbreaker - after all, any programming book you buy today has downloadable samples of all code available somewhere on the Internet... but it IS an annoyance. Why they couldn't produce the code in real text with an alternate font I have no idea. Why they couldn't present higher quality images of the code I also have no idea.Suffice to say, if you buy this for the Kindle, expect 5 star content with 3 star presentation - thereby bringing us to 4 overall.

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