PHP is experiencing a renaissance, although it's hard to see when looking at outdated materials. In this book, you'll learn how PHP has evolved into a mature, fully featured object-oriented language, with namespaces and an ever-growing collection of component libraries. Josh Lockhart, creator of the popular PHP The Right Way, demonstrates the language's new capabilities in practice. You'll learn best practices for application design and construction, database management, security, testing, debugging, and deployment. If you are already familiar with the PHP language and want to expand your knowledge about it, then this book is for you!

In this book, you:

• learn about the features of the modern PHP language, such as spaces names, traits, generators, and closures;• learn to find, use, and create PHP components;• learn best practices for application security, database management, error and exception handling, and more;• master tools and techniques for deployment, configuration, testing and profiling PHP applications; • learn about the HHVM virtual machine and the Hack language created by Facebook and evaluate their impact on the modern PHP language; • learn how to create a local development environment equivalent to a real server.