1. Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming.

2. Unified Modeling Language (UML).

3. Putting Objects to Work.

4. Design Patterns.

PART II:  CREATING A REUSABLE OBJECT TOOLKIT I—SIMPLE CLASSES AND INTERFACES.

5. Collection Class.

6. CollectionIterator Class.

7. GenericObject Class.

8. Database Abstraction Layers.

9. Factory Interface.

10. Event Driven Programming.

11. Logging and Debugging.

12. SOAP.

PART III: CREATING A REUSABLE OBJECT TOOLKIT II— COMPLEX (THOUGH NOT COMPLICATED) UTILITIES.

13. Model, View, Controller (MVC).

14. Communicating with Users.

15. Sessions and Authentication.

16. Unit Testing Framework.

17. Finite State Machine and Custom Configuration Files.

PART IV: TEST CASE: SALES FORCE AUTOMATION.

18. Project Overview.

19. Project Management Methodologies.

20. Planning the System.

21. Systems Architecture.

22. Assembling the Sales Force Automation Toolkit.

23. Quality Assurance.

24. Deployment.

25. Designing and Developing a Robust Reporting Platform.

26. Where Do We Go From Here?

PART V: APPENDICES.

Appendix A: Why Version Control Is a Good Thing™.

Appendix B: PHP IDEs.

Appendix C: Performance Tuning PHP.