Discover how stronger types mean cleaner, more efficient, and optimized PHP applications. This unique book looks at typed PHP: PHP types, strings, regular expressions, and more from PHP 7 as found in standard PHP libraries, user libraries, extensions, and cross-compilers. You'll see how to create a set of reusable tools that unify and ease the scalar types of PHP.

PHP has a rich history and a dominant place on the web. It has achieved much despite language inconsistencies and difficulties. Bjarne Stroustrup once said: "There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain...

Develop games using the JavaScript web scripting language. This compact short book will help you learn how to use modern JavaScript to make games for web browsers. They re effortless to use and they work everywhere. If you ve ever wanted to make a game, join author Christopher Pitt. You ll start with nothing and build fun games, in no time at all.

• Make a game using JavaScript
• Master the game loop
• Handle player input, collision detection, gravity, ladders, and stairs
• Work with camera locking, mobs, and health
• Manage...