In this chapter, we discussed a few best practices, including coding standards and styles, PHP frameworks, design patterns, Git, and deployment. Also, we discussed the PHPUnit framework to test classes and libraries against tests. Also, we discussed Service-oriented design, which plays a major role in creating APIs for applications.

In this book, we studied setting up development environments, including Linux servers, specifically Debian and Ubuntu, and we also discussed Vagrant. The new features of PHP are also listed with sample codes. You read in detail about the tools that we can use to improve the performance of an application and a database. Also, we discussed debugging and stress or load testing our applications and some best practices of writing quality code.

We mostly summarized the tools and techniques with simple examples to introduce the reader to these tools and techniques. There is a good chance that each tool and technique has its own book written for a more advanced...