Introduction. Part I: Getting Acquainted with Design Patterns and PHP. Chapter 1: Understanding Design Patterns. Chapter 2: Using Tools Already In Your Arsenal. Part II: Reference Material. Chapter 3: Adapter Pattern. Chapter 4: Builder Pattern. Chapter 5: Data Access Object Pattern. Chapter 6: Decorator Pattern. Chapter 7: Delegate Pattern. Chapter 8: Façade Pattern. Chapter 9: Factory Pattern. Chapter 10: Interpreter Pattern. Chapter 11: Iterator Pattern. Chapter 12: Mediator Pattern. Chapter 13: Observer Pattern. Chapter 14: Prototype Pattern. Chapter 15: Proxy Pattern. Chapter 16: Singleton Pattern. Chapter 17: Strategy Pattern. Chapter 18: Template Pattern. Chapter 19: Visitor Pattern. Part III: PHP Design Case Study. Chapter 20: Requirements Analysis. Chapter 21: Choosing Design Patterns and Planning. Chapter 22: Programming the Application. Chapter 23: Improving with More Design Patterns. Index.

PHP Design Patterns will enter the market with a two goals. The first will be to introduce experienced PHP developers to common design patterns, which is especially valuable considering most PHP developers are self or community taught. The second goal will demonstrate to programmers who are familiar with design patterns in other languages that PHP is robust enough to apply these techniques to. Experienced PHP programmers can benefit by applying design patterns to their code. In order to create better quality code, programmers will need to be introduced to the concept of design patterns. They will be shown examples of ordinary code used in  every-day development and how it is or is very near to being one of the design patterns that will be discussed. The main portion of the book will contain an alphabetical list of design patterns as well as a code example of how to implement the pattern in PHP. Finally, a case study creating a contact management system will be analyzed, planned and created step-by-step using many of the previously defined patterns. ·         What are Design Patterns? ·         Where have you seen them before in PHP? ·         What are the most common with examples ·         Real life application of PHP Design Patterns creating a contact management system