PHP Development Tool Essentials

Part I - Development Practices, Standards and Methodologies Chapter 1 - Version Control Section 1.1 - Overview of version control Section 1.2 - Using Git Section 1.3 - Branching Section 1.4 - Version control in the cloud: Bitbucket and GitHub Section 1.5 - Git Tools Chapter 2 - Virtualizing Development Environments Section 2.1 - Why virtualize development environments Section 2.2 - Introduction to Vagrant Section 2.3 - Setting up our first environment Section 2.4 - Advanced Configurations Using Puppet, Chef and Bash Section 2.5 - Configuration tools Chapter 3 - Coding Standards Section 3.1 - Coding standards and why we use them Section 3.2 - A look at PHP-FIG Section 3.3 - Coding standards checking with PHP Code Sniffer Section 3.3 - Code documentation using phpDocumentor Chapter 4 - Design Patterns Section 4.1 - Design Patterns overview Section 4.2 - Singleton Pattern Section 4.3 - Factory Pattern Section 4.4 - Abstract Pattern Section 4.5 - Strategy Pattern Section 4.6 - Dependency Injection Pattern Chapter 5 - Dependency Management Section 5.1 - Composer and Packagist Section 5.2 - PEAR and Pyrus Chapter 6 - SPL and Advanced PHP Features Section 6.1 - What is the SPL Section 6.2 - Exploring SPL functions Section 6.3 - Practical uses of the SPL Section 6.4 - Namespaces Section 6.5 - Traits Section 6.6 - Anonymous Functions (Closures) Section 6.7 - Variadic Functions Part II - Developing Web Applications Chapter 7 - PHP and Web Server Configurations Section 7.1 - Overview of PHP/Web Server Choices Section 7.2 - ModPHP, suPHP, FastCGI and PHP-FPM - What's right for you? Section 7.3 - Apache2 & Nginx working in harmony Chapter 8 - Frameworks Section 8.1 - Why you should be using a framework Section 8.2 - Zend Framework 2 Section 8.3 - Symfony 2 Section 8.4 - Laravel Section 8.5 - Micro-frameworks Chapter 9 - Testing & Debugging Section 9.1 - Why test? Section 9.2 - Test Driven Development Section 9.3 - Unit testing with PHPUnit Section 9.4 - PHPDBG Section 9.5 - Debugging tools (Xdebug and PHP Mess Detector) Chapter 10 - Exception Handling and Logging Section 10.1 - PHP's Exception handling Section 10.2 - Custom exception handlers Section 10.3 - Logging techniques Chapter 11 - Continuous Integration (CI) Section 11.1 - What is CI and why use it? Section 11.2 - Different CI choices for PHP Section 11.3 - Setting up CI for your application Chapter 12 - Caching and Performance Section 12.1 - Caching approaches Section 12.2 - Opcode and User Caches Section 12.3 - Redis Section 12.4 - Memcached Section 12.5 - Varnish Section 12.6 - Web Server caching Section 12.7 - Offloading tasks with queues Chapter 13 - Building an API Section 13.1 - Why build an API? Section 13.2 - The RESTful Approach Section 13.3 - The RPC Approach Section 13.4 - Building a simple API using Apigility Chapter 14 - Networking Section 14.1 - PHP Networking Functions Section 14.2 - Web Service clients with Guzzle Section 14.3 - Sockets Chapter 15 - Templates Section 15.1 - The pure PHP approach Section 15.2 - Twig Templates Section 15.3 - Smarty Templates Chapter 16 - Security Section 16.1 - General security overview Section 16.2 - Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Section 16.3 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Section 16.4 - SQL Injection and Prepared Statements Section 16.5 - Password Hashing Section 16.6 - PHP Data Filtering Section 16.7 - Building a two-factor authentication system Chapter 17 - PHP CLI Section 17.1 - Overview Section 17.2 - Command-Line Arguments Section 17.3 - Handling Input/Output Section 17.4 - Built-in Web Server Chapter 18 - PHP and MySQL In The Cloud Section 18.1 - Advantages of using cloud infrastructure Section 18.2 - Working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Section 18.3 - Working with Google App Engine for PHP Chapter 19 - Working with JavaScript Frameworks Section 19.1 - What are JavaScript Frameworks Section 19.2 - AngularJS Section 19.3 - Backbone.js Section 19.4 - Ember Part III - MySQL Chapter 20 - Object Relational Mapping Section 20.1 - Introduction to ORMs Section 20.2 - Using Propel & Doctrine Section 20.3 - Reverse engineering existing databases Section 20.4 - Working with advanced queries Chapter 21 - Database Design Section 21.1 - Standardizing naming conventions Section 21.2 - Choosing the correct column types Section 21.3 - Normalization Section 21.4 - Keys and Indexes Chapter 22 - Queries and MySQL Optimization Section 22.1 - Writing better-performing queries Section 22.2 - Using the MySQL Slow log Section 22.3 - Profiling queries with Explain Section 22.4 - Tweaking configuration values Section 22.5 - Query and administration tools Chapter 23 - Advanced MySQL Configurations Section 23.1 - MySQL Replication Section 23.2 - MySQL Cluster Section 23.3 - MySQL Partitioning Section 23.4 - High-availability with MySQL Fabric Section 23.5 - High-availability with Galera Cluster Chapter 24 - Implementing advanced Search capabilities Section 24.1 - Introduction to Sphinx Section 24.2 - Installing and configuring Sphinx Section 24.3 - Building search indexes Section 24.4 - Using the PHP Sphinx client Part IV - Looking Ahead Chapter 25 - Looking Ahead Section 25.1 - What is HHVM? Section 25.2 - The Hack Language Section 25.3 - PHPNG Section 25.4 - MySQL