PHP: Object-Oriented Programming

Learn how to use object-oriented programming principles in PHP.

Introduction

• PHP: OOP techniques
• How to use the exercise files

1. Overview and Project Set Up

• What is OOP?
• Project set up

2. Object Basics

• Define a class
• Instances
• Class properties
• Class methods
• Refer to an instance
• Challenge: Properties and methods
• Solution: Properties and methods

3. Class Inheritance

• What is inheritance?
• Define a subclass
• Extend and override
• Challenge: Inheritance
• Solution: Inheritance

4. Object Access Control

• Visibility modifiers
• Beware of overloading
• Setter and getter methods
• Challenge: Access control
• Solution: Access control

5. Static Properties and Methods

• The static modifier
• Inherited static behaviors
• Class constants
• Refer to the parent class
• Late static bindings
• Challenge: Static references
• Solution: Static references

6. Magic Methods

• Constructor method
• Constructor arguments
• Destructor method
• Clone method
• Assignment by reference
• Compare objects
• Autoload undefined classes

7. A PHP OOP Project

• Project introduction
• Challenge: The bicycle class
• Solution: The bicycle class
• From instances to HTML
• Read from a CSV file
• Improve ParseCSV
• From a CSV file to instances

Conclusion

• Happy Coding