Working through many of the concepts and skills needed by intermediate
and advanced PHP developers, this book is specifically designed to help
good PHP developers become indispensable ones. Topics include debugging,
test-driven development, web-based development, advanced object-oriented
programming, and web security, and the book also takes an in-depth look
at the new PHP Toolkit for IBM i provided by Zend Technologies. Upon
completion of this book, readers will be able to use its principles as a
basis for architecting complex applications, building web services
according to the best standards currently available, significantly
reducing the time spent discovering and fixing errors in code, designing
architectures that are testable and predictable, building secure
applications by protecting against most known attacks, and avoiding and
preparing for common performance issues.