Introduction to OO PHP & Composer
http://slides.com/cweagans/composer-intro/live
https://github.com/cweagans/composer-intro
About Me
- Principal Software Engineer for NBCUniversal
- Contributor to Drupal, Laravel, Neovim, and others
- cweagans pretty much everywhere on the web
Object oriented PHP
- It's not difficult
- It doesn't take a CS degree
- You can (and should) do it
The Wrong Way?
Well...kind of.
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OOP will not magically make your code better.
As a methodology, OO has issues.
It's still good to know.
Nest Thermostat
Habitat
Thermostat
The "Wrong" Way
Tag: step0
UI Demo (Step 0)
Demo: Step 0 Code
OO Baby Steps
Tag: step1
Step 1 Code Demo
Adding Composer
Tag: step2
Autoloading demo
Common patterns
Front Controller
Front Controller
- Used in non-OO applications (Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla)
- One file routes all requests to the code that should handle that request
- Usually involves some kind of URL munging by the web server
MVC
MVC
- Models: Represent data your application cares about (sometimes correlates to database tables)
- Views: Present information to the user (templates)
- Controllers: Orchestrate the process of getting data from Models and outputting the data via a View
MVC with a front controller
Tag: step3
Step 3 Code Demo
Thanks!
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