Discover how stronger types mean cleaner more efficient and optimized PHP applications. This
unique book looks at typed PHP: PHP types strings regular expressions and more from PHP 7 as
found in standard PHP libraries user libraries extensions and cross-compilers. You'll see
how to create a set of reusable tools that unify and ease the scalar types of PHP. PHP has a
rich history and a dominant place on the web. It has achieved much despite language
inconsistencies and difficulties. Bjarne Stroustrup once said: There are only two kinds of
languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses. PHP is one of those
languages that everybody uses yet that's often seen as a good reason to ignore the bad parts
and just get stuff done. We're all for getting stuff done and to that end the author has used
Plain Ol' PHP for many years. It's always bugged him how procedural PHP is in an ecosystem of
OOP libraries and frameworks. So he decided to take a deeper look at building a stronger type
system on top of PHP. That's the goal of this book.What You'll Learn Discover the fundamentals
of PHP strings regex underscores native function inconsistencies and more Examine the
structure of PHP types including boxing regex namespace functions composer autoload null
problem optional values and more Work with extensions like vagrant + phansible provisioning
vagrant commands SPL types scalar objects zephir and more Design using scalar SPL zephir
structure types resolving types chaining combining number types PHPUnit packaging and
more Plan for the future using a case study example Who This Book Is For Experienced web
developers and PHP programmers.
