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Clean Code in PHP

By : Carsten Windler, Alexandre Daubois
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Book Image

Clean Code in PHP

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By: Carsten Windler, Alexandre Daubois

Overview of this book

PHP is a beginner-friendly language, but also one that is rife with complaints of bad code,;yet no clean code books are specific to PHP. Enter Clean Code in PHP. This book is a one-stop guide to learning the theory and best practices of clean code specific to real-world PHP app development environments. This PHP book is cleanly split to help you navigate through coding practices and theories to understand and adopt the nuances of the clean code paradigm. In addition to covering best practices, tooling for code quality, and PHP design patterns, this book also presents tips and techniques for working on large-scale PHP apps with a team and writing effective documentation for your PHP projects. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to write human-friendly PHP code, which will fuel your PHP career growth and set you apart from the competition.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Introducing Clean Code
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Part 2 – Maintaining Code Quality

The pros and cons of using metrics

In the two previous chapters of this book, you have learned about many tools and metrics that exist solely to help you write better software. The knowledge and wisdom and countless hours of endeavor on the part of hundreds if not thousands of software engineers can be added to your project in a matter of minutes.

The other side of the coin is that you might already feel completely overwhelmed by the sheer number of possibilities. Which tools should you choose? Which metrics should you focus on in the future?

If you have that feeling already, do not worry. We will not leave you alone in all this mess but help you find a setup that fits your needs during the next chapters. To begin with, let us take the time to look at the pros but also cons of using code quality metrics.

The pros

First, each software project is a unique piece of work. It grows based on certain circumstances, such as the skill sets of the developers and the available packages...