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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
8
Part 2 – Maintaining Code Quality

Who decides these things anyway?

One thing we are going to see is that you should always question “good practices” and never consider them as a general truth that you must respect without understanding why. One excellent way to improve yourself is to ask every time you do not agree with someone’s review or point of view. Developers are fascinating as they can find unlimited ways to solve a single problem—unlimited solutions for the same result. Even if this can be seen as something a bit tiring sometimes, it is always interesting to understand why a developer wants to solve a problem in a different way than you. There are multiple goals to this, as follows:

  • You will improve your communication skills: If you want to communicate and be understood, you will have to explain your problem clearly.
  • You may learn new ways of doing things: We are all using the same language, but we all have different experiences with it. These different career and life...