DevShed: Service Layers in PHP Applications (a Series)
Note: This article was originally published at PHPDeveloper
on 18 October 2011.
DevShed has posted a series of tutorials talking about different sorts of service layers in PHP applications - seven of them to be exact:
If you're looking for an approachable guide that teaches you how to implement an easily-customizable service layer in PHP, then take a peek at this article series. In a step-by-step fashion, it walks you through the development of a sample web application, which uses a service to perform CRUD operations on a domain model composed of a few user entities.
Service layer types covered in the series are:
- Working with database entities
- Data Mappers
- Database adapters
- Handling Entity Collections
- User Services
- Dependency Injections
- Modeling Domain Objects