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Learn each of the original gang of four design patterns, and how they are relevant to modern PHP and Laravel development. Written by a working developer who uses these patterns every day, you will easily be able to implement each pattern into your workflow and improve your development. Each pattern is covered with full examples of how it can be used.
Too often design patterns are explained using tricky concepts, when in fact they are easy to use and can enrich your everyday development. Design Patterns in PHP and Laravel aims to break down tricky concepts into humorous and easy-to-recall details, so that you can begin using design patterns easily in your everyday work with PHP and Laravel.
This book teaches you design patterns in PHP and Laravel using real-world examples and plenty of humor.

What You Will Learn

Use the original gang of four design patterns in your PHP and Laravel development

How each pattern should be used

Solve problems when using the patterns

Remember each pattern using mnemonics

Who This Book Is For
People using Laravel and PHP to do their job and want to improve their understanding of design patterns.

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1. Laravel Basics.- 2. Let´s Grow a SOLID Garden.- 3. Abstract Factory.- 4. Builder.- 5. Factory Method.- 6. Prototype.- 7. Singleton.- 8. Simple Factory Method.- 9. Adapter.- 10. Bridge.- 11. Composite.- 12. Decorator.- 13. Fa‡ade.- 14. Flyweight.- 15. Proxy.- 16. Chain of Responsibility.- 17. Command.- 18. Interpreter.- 19. Iterator.- 20. Mediator.- 21. Memento.- 22. Observer.- 23. State.- 24. Strategy.- 25. Template Method.- 26. Visitor.- 27. More Resources.

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Kelt Dockins is a humble narcissistic web developer. He works as a full stack freelancer. He specializes in quick to market web applications and minimum viable products for start ups. He has worked on small projects, medium size projects and even a few small-medium sized projects. He loves being a father, a husband and a developer. He´s worked with many programming languages such as Visual Basic 6.0, c++, Java, perl, bash, prolog, .NET stack, html, css, javascript and php. For the last 3 years, he´s been using php and the ever-so popular Laravel framework to stay at home and eat bacon while earning it at the same time. He does love bacon.

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