PHP Objects Patterns and Practice Part I. Objects 1. PHP: Design and Management 2. PHP and Objects 3. Object Basics 4. Advanced Features 5. Object Tools 6. Objects and Design Part II. Patterns 7. What Are Design Patterns Why Use Them 8. Some Pattern Principles 9. Generating Objects 10. Patterns for Flexible Object Programming 11. Performing and Representing Tasks 12. Enterprise Patterns 13. Database Patterns Part III. Practice 14. Good (and Bad) Practice 15. PHP Standards 16. PHP Using and Creating Components with Composer 17. Version Control with Git 18. Testing 19. Automated Build with Phing 20. Vagrant 21. Continuous Integration 22. Objects Patterns and Practice 23. App A: Bibliography 24. App B: A Simple Parser. The 5th edition of this popular book has been fully updated for PHP 7 including replacing the PEAR package manager with Composer and new material on Vagrant and PHP standards. It provides a solid grounding in PHPs support for objects it builds on this foundation to instill core principles of software design and then covers the tools and practices needed to develop test and deploy robust code. PHP Objects Patterns and Practice begins by covering PHPs object oriented features. It introduces key topics including class declaration inheritance reflection and much more. The next section is devoted to design patterns. It explains the principles that make patterns powerful. The book covers many of the classic design patterns and includes chapters on enterprise and database patterns. The last segment of the book covers the tools and practices that can help turn great code into a successful project. The section shows how to manage multiple developers and releases with git how to manage builds and dependencies with Composer. It also explores strategies for automated testing and continuous integration. Taken together these three elements: object fundamentals design principles and best practice will help the reader develop elegant and rock solid systems.