Dive into a comprehensive 3-hour programming course on Object-Oriented PHP, designed to rapidly advance your skills from beginner to professional level. Explore fundamental concepts such as objects, classes, properties, and methods before progressing to more advanced topics like inheritance, visibility, encapsulation, and abstract classes. Master essential techniques including type hinting, constructor promoted properties, and static methods. Tackle practical challenges and learn to write efficient, maintainable code using object-oriented principles. By the end of this in-depth tutorial, gain a solid understanding of OOP in PHP, enabling you to develop more robust and scalable applications.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction to object oriented PHP
What are objects?
Creating classes
Class properties
Class methods
Method arguments
Named arguments
Constructors
Constructor promoted properties
Type hinting
Class type declarations
Return type declarations
Introduction to inheritance
Redundancy and duplication
The 'extends' keyword
Inheritance and constructors
Inheritance challenge
Overriding parent methods
Introduction to visibility
Protected properties
Private properties
Method visibility
Encapsulation
Typed properties
Union types
Static properties
Static methods
Class constants
Abstract classes
Abstract methods
Taught by
Gary Clarke
