PHP: The "Right" Way
PHP: The "Right" Way
Your guide to PHP best practices, coding standards, and authoritative tutorials.
About the Book
There’s a lot of outdated information on the Web that leads new PHP users astray, propagating bad practices and insecure code. PHP: The Right Way is an easy-to-read, quick reference for PHP popular coding standards, links to authoritative tutorials around the Web and what the contributors consider to be best practices at the present time.
There is no canonical way to use PHP. This book aims to introduce new PHP developers to some topics which they may not discover until it is too late, and aims to give seasoned pros some fresh ideas on those topics they’ve been doing for years without ever reconsidering. This ebook will also not tell you which tools to use, but instead offer suggestions for multiple options, when possible explaining the differences in approach and use-case.
This is a living document and will continue to be updated with more helpful information and examples as they become available.
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About the Editors
Table of Contents
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- 0.1 Windows Setup
- 0.2 Mac Setup
- 0.3 Common Directory structure
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1. Getting Started
- 1.1 Use the Current Stable Version (8.1)
- 1.2 Built-in web server
- 1.3 Data Filtering
- 1.4 Web Application Security
- 1.5 Error Reporting
- 1.6 Configuration Files
- 1.7 Register Globals
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2. Security
- 2.1 Password Hashing
- 2.2 Complementary Testing Tools
- 2.3 Test Driven Development
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3. Testing
- 3.1 Behavior Driven Development
- 3.2 Virtual or Dedicated Servers
- 3.3 Shared Servers
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4. Servers and Deployment
- 4.1 Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- 4.2 Building and Deploying your Application
- 4.3 Docker
- 4.4 Vagrant
- 5. Virtualization
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6. Caching
- 6.1 Object Caching
- 6.2 Opcode Cache
- 6.3 PHPDoc
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7. Documenting your Code
- 7.1 Books
- 7.2 People to Follow
- 7.3 Other Useful Resources
- 7.4 Video Tutorials
- 7.5 Components
- 7.6 PHP PaaS Providers
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8. Resources
- 8.1 Frameworks
- 8.2 From the Source
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9. Community
- 9.1 PHP Conferences
- 9.2 PHP User Groups
- 9.3 ElePHPants
- 10. Code Style Guide
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11. Language Highlights
- 11.1 Xdebug
- 11.2 Command Line Interface
- 11.3 Standard PHP Library
- 11.4 Programming Paradigms
- 11.5 Namespaces
- 11.6 PEAR
- 11.7 Composer and Packagist
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12. Dependency Management
- 12.1 Working with UTF-8
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13. Coding Practices
- 13.1 The Basics
- 13.2 Design Patterns
- 13.3 Internationalization (i18n) and Localization (l10n)
- 13.4 Common ways to implement
- 13.5 Gettext
- 13.6 Date and Time
- 13.7 Complex Problem
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14. Dependency Injection
- 14.1 Containers
- 14.2 Basic Concept
- 14.3 Further Reading
- 14.4 Interacting with Databases
- 14.5 MySQL Extension
- 14.6 PDO Extension
- 14.7 Abstraction Layers
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15. Databases
- 15.1 Further Reading
- 15.2 Benefits
- 15.3 Compiled Templates
- 15.4 Plain PHP Templates
- 16. Templating
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17. Errors and Exceptions
- 17.1 Errors
- 17.2 Exceptions
Causes Supported
PHPWomen
An inclusive & global network providing support within the PHP community.
http://phpwomen.orgAn inclusive & global network providing support within the PHP community.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Defending your civil liberties in a digital world.
https://www.eff.org/Based in San Francisco, EFF is a donor-supported membership organization working to protect fundamental rights regardless of technology.
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