Reddit reviews PHP Objects, Patterns, and Practice

If you still cant write proper OO code, it may be too early to jump right into frameworks at this moment. You can get this book PHP Objects-Patterns-Practices and read through it, Id consider this one as a very good intermediate level PHP book for aspiring coders who are ready to make a leap from amateur procedural programmer into professional OO programmer. Once you understand all the concepts and practices from this book, and you are comfortable with OO in general, it will be a good time to begin learning/using frameworks like Symfony/Zend.

https://www.amazon.com/Objects-Patterns-Practice-MATT-ZANDSTRA/dp/1484219953/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1539267445&sr=8-1&keywords=php+objects%2C+patterns%2C+and+practice

Diving into OOP for me was difficult, I knew the principles and ideas behind it from back in C++ even had a class on it that used Java in college, but for me, without a good large scale example, it was hard for me to grasp. I finally took a plunge, found a good book for reference, and converted a web app I wrote back in 2003-04 over to a new OOP version (which ended up with like 4 revisions during build as I kept refactoring things out for the better). I'm sure that people who know OOP really well would probably gag at my code, but it is a learning process. I'm an old dog learning new tricks ;) I started with PHP back in 1999, coming from programming in C and Perl for web stuff before it.

I myself liked this book (I read a previous revision, this is the latest one)

It is a learning curve, but worth it IMO.

They're outdated now but I used:

3rd Edition of The Object Oriented Thought Process

[PHP Object-Oriented Solutions] (https://www.amazon.com/PHP-Object-Oriented-Solutions-David-Powers/dp/1430210117/ref=sr_1_17?ie=UTF8&qid=1540156770&sr=8-17&keywords=object+oriented+php)

[4th Edition of PHP Objects, Patterns, and Practice] (https://www.amazon.com/Objects-Patterns-Practice-Matt-Zandstra/dp/1430260319/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1540157156&sr=8-2&keywords=php+objects%2C+patterns%2C+and+practice+by+matt+zandstra)


Searching for this stuff on Amazon, I saw that The Object Oriented Thought Process is coming out with a new edition near the end of November. You might want to grab a pre-order of that. That's the OO book I started with.


The second book was a gentle introduction into understanding OO specifically in the context of PHP, but it's 10 years out of date, so I don't recommend it. If I was doing this learning now I'd look for something released in the PHP 7 era.


The third book had an edition come out in 2016, so it seems current enough but you might find it really advanced for you. I read it after I was done with the first two books, so my mind was prepared to understand.


So, for now. I guess try the 5th edition of The Object Oriented Thought Process and then after that try to find something current (PHP 7 era) that covers OO in PHP specifically.