You're reading from PHP 8 Programming Tips, Tricks and Best Practices A practical guide to PHP 8 features, usage changes, and advanced programming techniques

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801071871

Length 528 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Author (1):

Doug Bierer

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: PHP 8 Tips

2. Chapter 1: Introducing New PHP 8 OOP Features FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Learning about PHP 8's Functional Additions

4. Chapter 3: Taking Advantage of Error-Handling Enhancements

5. Chapter 4: Making Direct C-Language Calls

6. Section 2: PHP 8 Tricks

7. Chapter 5: Discovering Potential OOP Backward-Compatibility Breaks

8. Chapter 6: Understanding PHP 8 Functional Differences

9. Chapter 7: Avoiding Traps When Using PHP 8 Extensions

10. Chapter 8: Learning about PHP 8's Deprecated or Removed Functionality

11. Section 3: PHP 8 Best Practices

12. Chapter 9: Mastering PHP 8 Best Practices

13. Chapter 10: Improving Performance

14. Chapter 11: Migrating Existing PHP Apps to PHP 8

15. Chapter 12: Creating PHP 8 Applications Using Asynchronous Programming

16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about deprecated and removed PHP functionality. The first section in this chapter dealt with core functionality that has been removed. The rationale for the change was explained, and you learned that the main reason for removing the functionality described in this chapter is not only to move you toward code that follows best practices but to have you use PHP 8 functionality that is faster and more efficient.

In the next section, you learned about deprecated functionality. The key theme in this section was to highlight how the deprecated functions, classes, and methods lead to bad practices and bug-ridden code. You also were given guidance on functionality that has been either removed or deprecated in a number of key PHP 8 extensions.

You learned how to locate and rewrite code that has been deprecated, and how to develop workarounds for functionality that has been removed. Another skill you learned in this chapter included how to refactor code...