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My Favorite PHP books

Bruno Paz on September 23, 2018

Hello. In this post, I share some of my favorite PHP books that I consider a must read for any PHP developer. PHP The Right way There...
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Bruno Paz

Thanks for the links ;)

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Euthimios

php objects patterns and practice by Matt Zandstra

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Tom F.

Just a small question : If you create a website using the DDD concept, does it mean it's impossible to a framework like Symfony and it's you who have to write the whole code ?

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Fran Iglesias • Edited

Not at all. The domain layer is old good PHP, but you can use Symfony to implement all sort of things at the infrastructure level. The key here is to apply the Dependency Inversion Principle.

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Tom F.

Okay. As you probably guessed I don't know anything about DDD but I'll try to find some time to read about it.

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Fran Iglesias

I would strongly recommend two of the books mentioned here as a good starting points: DDD in PHP and The Clean Architecture.

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Shinyuy Marcel

Would love to build APIs, but have no real books for that.

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Shinyuy Marcel

Sound like some great books Sir, but is there any in this list that is free ? please would love to have it.

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Professional PHP by Patrick Louys

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David J Eddy

Additionally, any writings by Cal Evans blog.calevans.com/

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Chonbashev Artyk

Hi, what would you suggest if I find hard to read DDD in PHP, maybe some starter points?
I just think that I need something to read "before" I can fully comprehend this book.