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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

Code, Don’t Do Stunts

The advanced principles of clean code will actually help you to become an easily understood developer who is able to code more cleanly. They teach you to be consistent in your choices, to think about other developers and your team, and to make communication the main tool of our work. Even before the source code.

It’s a fact: although the source code has a preponderant place in the developer’s job, we should not make it our main reason to be. It is a reality: the developer’s job is not to write code. It’s about finding a solution to a given problem while adapting to constraints that would get in the way. This is the basis of our job that we must absolutely keep in mind. And although the principles we have just seen in the previous chapter, such as SOLID, seem to be strongly linked to the code, we must try to have a more “meta” perspective on all this, thinking outside the box, and taking a step back. The principles...