Clean Code in PHP
Expert tips and best practices to write beautiful, human-friendly, and maintainable PHP
Carsten Windler, Alexandre Daubois
- 264 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Clean Code in PHP
Expert tips and best practices to write beautiful, human-friendly, and maintainable PHP
Carsten Windler, Alexandre Daubois
About This Book
Practical lessons, examples, and practices from PHP experts on how to take your PHP skills to a professional levelKey Featuresā¢ Easily navigate to key clean code principles specific to PHP development with this hands-on guideā¢ Learn the how and why of writing clean code through practical examplesā¢ Skip the superfluous knowledge and grasp everything that's relevant to the real-world development environmentBook DescriptionPHP 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.What you will learnā¢ Build a solid foundation in clean coding to craft human-readable codeā¢ Understand metrics to determine the quality of your codeā¢ Get to grips with the basics of automated testsā¢ Implement continuous integration for your PHP applicationsā¢ Get an overview of software design patterns to help you write reusable codeā¢ Gain an understanding of coding guidelines and practices for working in teamsWho this book is forThis book is for early-career PHP developers who wish to avoid writing messy code by learning how to write understandable and maintainable code that sets them apart from rest. The book assumes familiarity with PHP coding and principles, but no knowledge of advanced principles will be necessary.