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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

Preface

PHP has evolved over several decades from a simple scripting language for creating HTML pages to a feature-rich language with an extensive ecosystem. Because the vast majority of websites are still powered by PHP, it is one of the cornerstones of the internet.

While still beginner-friendly, it can be used to implement everything from small websites to enterprise applications used worldwide. However, the low entry barriers of PHP sometimes lead to code that is difficult to understand and impossible to maintain.

With this book, we want to introduce you to the world of Clean Code. You will learn a lot about the theory and also, how to apply the knowledge you learned in the real world. You will learn which tools will support you on this journey and which best practices you should use to be able to implement Clean Code successfully in your team.