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Clean Code in PHP

Clean Code in PHP

Expert tips and best practices to write beautiful, human-friendly, and maintainable PHP


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Published
October 2022
Publisher
Packt
Chapters
14

About the course

Practical lessons, examples, and practices from PHP experts on how to take your PHP skills to a professional level

Key Features
  • Easily navigate to key clean code principles specific to PHP development with this hands-on guide
  • Learn the how and why of writing clean code through practical examples
  • Skip the superfluous knowledge and grasp everything that’s relevant to the real-world development environment

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.

This 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.

Authors

Carsten Windler

Carsten Windler

Carsten Windler is a Lead PHP engineer at Plan A.
Alexandre Daubois

Alexandre Daubois

Alexandre Daubois is a Symfony Developer at SensioLabs, the company that created Symfony.

Course Outline

Chapter 1: What Is Clean Code and Why Should You Care?
Chapter 2: Who Gets to Decide What “Good Practices” Are?
Chapter 3: Code, Don’t Do Stunts
Chapter 4: It is about More Than Just Code
Chapter 5: Optimizing Your Time and Separating Responsibilities
Chapter 6: PHP is Evolving – Deprecations and Revolutions
Chapter 7: Code Quality Tools
Chapter 8: Code Quality Metrics
Chapter 9: Organizing PHP Quality Tools
Chapter 10: Automated Testing
Chapter 11: Continuous Integration
Chapter 12: Working in a Team
Chapter 13: Creating Effective Documentation
Chapter 14: Index

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Published
October 2022
Publisher
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Chapters
14

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