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Learning PHP 7 High Performance

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Learning PHP 7 High Performance

Overview of this book

PHP is a great language for building web applications. It is essentially a server-side scripting language that is also used for general-purpose programming. PHP 7 is the latest version, providing major backward-compatibility breaks and focusing on high performance and speed. This fast-paced introduction to PHP 7 will improve your productivity and coding skills. The concepts covered will allow you, as a PHP programmer, to improve the performance standards of your applications. We will introduce you to the new features in PHP 7 and then will run through the concepts of object-oriented programming (OOP) in PHP 7. Next, we will shed some light on how to improve your PHP 7 applications' performance and database performance. Through this book, you will be able to improve the performance of your programs using the various benchmarking tools discussed. At the end, the book discusses some best practices in PHP programming to help you improve the quality of your code.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Learning PHP 7 High Performance
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Coding styles


There are too many coding styles out there, such as PSR-0, PSR-1, PSR-2, PSR-3, and so on. Programmers can use different standards as they want, but it is necessary to follow a standard that is already used in the libraries or a framework in use to make the code more readable. For example, Laravel uses the PSR-1 and PSR-4 coding standards, so if we are developing in Laravel, we should follow these coding standards. Some PHP frameworks, such as Yii 2 and Zend Framework 2, follow the PSR-2 coding standards. However, none of these frameworks stick to a single standard; most of them follow a mixed standard according to their requirements.

The important point is to follow the standard that is used in the libraries used in the application. An organization can also use its own coding standards for internal purposes. It is not a requirement for coding; it is a requirement for readability and producing quality code that others can understand.

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