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Clean Code in PHP

By : Carsten Windler, Alexandre Daubois
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Book Image

Clean Code in PHP

5 (1)
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

Static Code Analysis

Static Code Analysis means that the only source of information is the code itself. Just by scanning the source code, these tools will find issues and problems that even the most senior developer in your team would miss during a code review.

These are the tools we would like to introduce you to in the next sections:

  • phpcpd
  • PHPMD
  • PHPStan
  • Psalm

phpcpd – the copy and paste detector

Copy and paste programming can be anything from simply annoying to a real threat to your projects. Bugs, security issues, and bad practices will get copied around and thus become harder to fix. Think of it as though it were a plague spreading through your code.

This form of programming is quite common, especially among less experienced developers, or in projects where the deadlines are very tight. Luckily, our clean code toolkit offers a remedy – the PHP copy and paste detector (phpcpd).

Installation and usage

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