PHP Do's and Don'ts

[Tyrsson]

For those new to php. You might want to take a day or two and read this:

PHP: The Right Way

An easy-to-read, quick reference for PHP best practices, accepted coding standards, and links to authoritative PHP tutorials around the Web

phptherightway.com

Here's a short list of do's and don'ts

• Use composer, and its autoloader.
• Use a good DBAL for database access.
• Don't put your queries in the same files that contain your markup.
• Don't mutate globals. Use psr-7/15.
• Use a bootstrap file and keep your executables out of the document root of the web server.
• Learn OO, its powerful.
• If your version of php supports it, use declare(strict_types=1) and if it doesn't, upgrade your php version.
• Do not reinvent the wheel. If there is a well maintained lib, use it.
• Stay out of the global scope.
• Build to the interface.
• Did I mention learn OO?
• Do NOT use eval.
• Do not try to write your own cryptography functions/methods. There is a 99% chance it's a bad idea.
• Even if you just have to use functions instead of classes and methods, please, for the love of everything good in the universe. Type your arguments and returns.
• Depend on the abstraction not the concrete implementation.
• Generally prefer composition over inheritance.

That's all for now.

 

[simong1993]

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