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PHP Application Development with NetBeans: Beginner's Guide

By : M A Hossain Tonu
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PHP Application Development with NetBeans: Beginner's Guide

By: M A Hossain Tonu

Overview of this book

<p>NetBeans has many features that greatly simplify PHP development, and with its several features and great flexibility, PHP developers can become overwhelmed by the IDE's options. This book provides step-by-step instructions that show you how to take control of the environment and make use of these features to make your PHP application development more efficient and productive than ever before.<br /><br />"PHP Application Development with NetBeans: Beginner's Guide" leads you through the crucial parts of PHP programming and shows you how to use the features of NetBeans that will improve your PHP development experience, through clear and easy instructions.<br /><br />The book gets you started with the development environment and tools, and takes you through working on practical projects with a clear focus. With each chapter being mission-critical, the book is a perfect companion to boost your PHP coding productivity and gain experience with even complex projects.<br /><br />The book starts with setting up the PHP development environment and introduces exciting and useful IDE features. You'll learn how to build real life PHP projects such as Facebook like Status Updater and even User Registration, Login &amp; Logout application. Also the book will introduce you with some must know development tools such as debugging &amp; testing tools, source documenter tools, and versioning tools.<br /><br />Working with the NetBeans IDE for PHP development has its own advantages, and this book reassures the purpose. This book is full of illustrations, screenshots, and clear instructions to take your PHP development to a new level and even shows you time-saving tricks and other productivity enhancements.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
PHP Application Development with NetBeans Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Writing great documentation


Coding is the art of instructing machines, and when it comes to human readability, code should be expressive, self-explanatory, and beautiful. The code should be reusable and understandable, so that you can use it again a couple of months from now. A good practitioner makes the code as simple as possible to understand, and keeps the code documentation where it is really required.

Code documentation is the motivating part of coding, particularly when you are working in a collaborative team environment; documentation should be done in a sensible way, so that learning the intent of the code can be faster among collaborators.

A regular practice to document the source code is putting comments in your code specified by the PHPDoc format, so that your code becomes more meaningful and the external documentation generator can parse such comments.