I. Fundamentals of Professional Development.

1. Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming.

2. Unified Modeling Language (UML).

3. Putting Objects to Work.

4. Design Patterns.

5. Collections.

6. Database Abstraction and PDO.

II. Learning Advanced Development Techniques.

7. Object-Relation Mapping.

8. Event-Driven Programming.

9. Logging and Debugging.

10. Writing and Using Web Services.

11. Communicating with Users.

12. Sessions and Authentication.

13. Application Architecture.

14. PHP Application Frameworks.

III. A Real-World Case Study.

15. Project Overview.

16. Project Management.

17. Project Planning.

18. Systems Architecture.

19. Building the Application.

20. Quality Assurance and Testing.

21. Deployment.

IV. Pushing PHP to Its Limits.

22. Content Management in the PHP World.

23. Handling High Traffic and High Availability.

24. PHP Advocacy.

25. Your Career as a PHP Professional.

V. Appendixes.

Appendix A. Version control.

Appendix B. PHP IDEs.

Appendix C. Performance Tuning PHP.

Appendix D. Best Practice PHP Installation.

Index.