It is with great pleasure that I announce the second edition of the Functional Programming in PHP book that I have been working on. There is twice the content of the first edition of the book as well as updates for PHP 7 and Facebook’s HHVM (HipHop Virtual Machine).
There are now more functional techniques and patterns included with pipelines, pattern matching and flat maps among them. I have added a section of the book dedicated to the handy syntax and functionality that HHVM can provide functional programmers with.
In addition I have, of course, listened to reader feedback and gone into a lot more detail about functions themselves, type signatures and their use, functional programming history and provided more examples of functional code in use. There is also a glossary of terms and appendices on libraries, REPLs and the frequently requested guide to using the UTF-8 ellipsis effectively in various editors.
On top of all that the book has been completely reorganised into a more logical structure with a better chapter breakdown.
So if you’re the kind of programmer who likes clean and easy to test code resulting in less bugs this is the PHP book for you. Even if functional programming isn’t really your thing all the techniques in the book will help you to become a better object oriented or procedural programmer.
To get your copy head on over to the books website for purchase links.