JavaScript for PHP Developers A Concise Guide to Mastering JavaScript

Name: JavaScript for PHP Developers A Concise Guide to Mastering JavaScript
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ISBN: 9781449320195

ISBN-10: 1449320198

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Edition: 2012

Authors: Stoyan Stefanov

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Ready to expand your PHP web development skills with JavaScript? With this guide, you can leverage your experience with PHP to pick up JavaScript quickly. Both languages share the C language syntax, enabling you to skip similarities such as conditions and loops to focus on JavaScript’s unique object creation, classes, prototypes, and inheritance.PHP is a valuable web development tool on its own, but with the increase in client-side development, knowledge of JavaScript has become essential for working with today’s Web. By concentrating on the differences between these languages, this book helps PHP programmers, web architects, and back-end and front-end engineers get up to speed on…

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List price: $15.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/12/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 6.97" wide x 9.21" long x 0.35" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Stoyan Stefanov is a Yahoo! web developer, Zend Certified Engineer, and an author, contributor, and tech reviewer of various O'Reilly books. He speaks regularly about web development topics at conferences and on his blog at www.phpied.com. Stoyan is the creator of the smush.it image optimization tool and architect of Yahoo's performance optimization tool YSlow 2.0.



Acknowledgments


Preface



Introduction


Scope of This Book


The Language


Learning Environment


Browsers


JavaScriptCore


Node.js and Rhino


Longer Examples


Lets Get Started



JavaScript Syntax


Variables


What Does $ Do in JavaScript?


Values


typeof Introspection


null and undefined


Arrays


Associative Arrays


Conditions


Ternary Operator


Strict Comparison


switch


try-catch


while and for Loops


for-in Loops


Miscellaneous Operators


in


String Concatenation


Type Casting


void


Comma Operator



Functions


Default Parameters


Any Number of Arguments


arguments.length Trick


Return Values


Functions Are Objects


A Different Syntax


Scope


Hoisting


Hoisting Functions


Closures


Closures in PHP


Scope Chain


The Scope Chain in the WebKit Console


Retaining the Scope


Retaining References, Not Values


Closures in a Loop


Exercise: onclick Loop


Immediate Functions


Initialization


Privacy


Passing and Returning Functions


Callbacks Are Not Strings



Object-Oriented Programming


Constructors and Classes


Returning Objects


More on This


Enforcing Constructors


Prototypes


Object Literals


Accessing Properties


Confusing Dots


Methods in Object Literals


Fancy Arrays


Own Properties


_proto_


this or prototype


Inheritance


Inheritance via the Prototype


Inheritance via Copying Properties


Beget Object


"Classical" extend()


Borrowing Methods


Conclusion



The Built-In API


The Global Object


Global Properties


Global Functions


Numbers


Encoding URLs


Built-In Constructors


Object


Array


RegExp


Function


String


Number


Boolean


Math


Error


Date


Constructors Review



ECMAScript5


Strict Mode


Property Attributes


New Object APIs


Object.create()


ObjectgetOwnPropertyDescriptor()


Object.defineProperty() and Object.defmeProperties()


Restricting Object Mutations


Looping Alternatives


Object.getPrototypeOf()


Array Additions


Array.isArray()


indexOf() and lastIndexOf()


Walking the Array Elements


Filtering


Testing the Array Content


Map/Reduce


String Trimming


New in Date


Function.prototype.bind()


JSON


Shims



JavaScript Patterns


Private Properties


Private Methods


Exposing Private Objects


Returning Private Arrays


Deep Copy via JSON


Revealing Pattern


Constants


Namespaces


Modules


Common JS Modules


Defining a CommonJS Module


Using a CommonJS Module


Using an Agnostic Module


AMD


Design Patterns


Singleton


Factory


Decorator


Documentation and Testing


Manual


Documenting Your Code


Unit Testing


JSLint


Linting This Book


Index