PHP Expertise

Introduction to OOP and PHP 5

• Introduction to OOP concepts
• Advantages of the OOP
• Main principles and implementations
• Differences between PHP 4 and PHP 5
• What's new in PHP 5.3 ?

Object Oriented Programming

• Classes
• Objects
• Properties
• Methods
• Constructor
• Destructor
• Visibility (public, private and protected)
• Pass objects by reference
• Simple class inheritance
• Type hinting

Advanced Programming

• Abstract classes and methods
• Final classes and methods
• Magic methods
• Overriding and overloading methods
• Exceptions
• Interfaces
• Static properties and methods
• Class autoloading
• Object cloning
• Virtual methods calls
• Object serialization and unserialization
• Namespaces

PHP Standard Library (SPL)

• Introduction to the SPL
• Extra exceptions types
• Iterator interface
• Countable interface
• ArrayAccess interface
• Data structures
• Files manipulation

PHP's Object APIs

• Database manipulation with PDO
• Reading XML files with SimpleXML
• XML files generation with DOMDocument
• Datetime formatting with DateTime

Best practices

• Document the code with PHPDoc and annotations
• Introduction to depedency injection principle
• Introduction to design patterns
• Automated unit testing
• Introduction to PHP frameworks