php|architect’s Guide to PHP Design Patterns

You have probably heard a lot about Design Patterns–a technique that helps you design rock-solid solutions to practical problems that programmers everywhere encounter in their day-to-day work.

Even though there has been a lot of buzz, however, no-one has yet come up with a comprehensive resource on design patterns for PHP developers—until today.

Author Jason E. Sweat’s book php|architect’s Guide to PHP Design Patterns is the first comprehensive guide to design patterns designed specifically for the PHP developer. This book includes coverage of 16 design patterns with a specific eye to their applications in PHP when building complex web applications, both in PHP 4 and PHP 5 (where appropriate, sample code for both versions of the language is provided).

As you can expect from a php|architect book, this Guide is very focused on its topic, with none of the fluff that accompanies the large, expensive “500-page monsters” you sometimes find at the bookstore. Naturally, this doesn’t come at the expense of depth of coverage or clarity: the book contains tens of scripts that give you a practical overview of every topic covered, from top to bottom.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Programming Practices
• The ValueObject Pattern
• The Factory Pattern
• The Singleton Pattern
• The Registry Pattern
• The MockObject Pattern
• The Strategy Pattern
• The Iterator Pattern
• The Observer Pattern
• The Specification Pattern
• The Proxy Pattern
• The Decorator Pattern
• The Adapter Pattern
• The ActiveRecord Pattern
• The TableDataGateway Pattern
• The DataMapper Pattern
• The Model-View-Controller Pattern
• Conclusion

Appendices

• Patterns Quick Reference
• SimpleTest Testing Practices

You can download the book’s code zip file here.