Phparchitect's Guide to PHP Design Patterns

by Jason E. Sweat

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0973589825
• ISBN13: 9780973589825
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Musketeers.Me, LLC
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.6" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

best design pattern book for PHP yet.

I'm relatively new to objects and design patterns and have been learning them for only the last 4 months. As most people know PHP 5 was the first iteration of a half way decent obeject implementation in PHP. Therefore there is just now beginning to be OO related design books on the market for this functionality. I've bought them all as my opinion is this on trumps the rest. It's not going to tell you much on object theory or PHP's object syntax. However when it comes to design architecture it's be best I've found for PHP specifically. Outside of that if you're looking for good Design Pattern and Architecture theory stuff you should start reading Java based books as there's some really good ones.

Great book!

This book is great, like any other O'Reilly books. It's helpful to those who already have knowledge of PHP.

PHP, Design Patterns, OOP (great book)

A great book for design patterns comprehension in PHP. There is a huge variety of patterns explained in this book, which helped me a lot. It also provides a very well written text with an easy comprehension, even for beginners in design patterns area.

An excellent primer on design patterns in PHP

While you can do much better for a first book on design patterns if you are new to the topic (get O'Reilly's Head First Design Patterns), this book is a must-have for learning common patterns to problems PHP developers face. A great strength of the book is the author's clear devotion to the other practices like test driven development and UML. These things do not get in the way of the book's intent; Sweat gives you code example after code example, and what could be better in a programming book? Some reviewers are quick to jump on things like typos (there are a few) but grammar aside it's clear the author poured a lot of devotion into this book. I also like that the book introduced me to patterns that are not covered in Head First or the Gang Of Four book, like the emminently useful Registry Pattern; there are also patterns to solve particular problems for the language, like the Value Pattern. If you've picked up a design patterns book in the past and were put off because all the examples are in Java, you owe it to yourself and your craft to pick this title up. Next I want to see a book called "Refactoring PHP To Patterns"!!