Clean Code in PHP

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

Key Features

• A hands-on guide that provides easy navigation to important clean code principles specific to PHP development
• Practical examples to teach both, the how and why of writing clean code
• No superfluous knowledge, everything is relevant to the real-world development environment

Book Description

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.

Clean Code in PHP is cleanly split into cleanly split to easily find and focus on coding practices or theory to understand the adopt the nuances of the clean code paradigm. Besides coverage of best practices, tooling for code quality, and PHP design patterns, the book also presents tips and techniques for working on large-scale PHP apps with a team and writing effective documentation for your PHP project.

By the end of the book, you will be able to write human-friendly PHP code which will fuel your PHP career growth and help you stand out from the rest of the developers.

What you will learn

• Learn the foundations of clean coding for crafting human-readable code
• Get an overview of software design patterns to help you write reusable code
• Understand metrics to determine the quality of your code
• Refactor your legacy code by writing automated tests
• Implement continuous integration for your PHP applications

Who This Book Is For

This book is for early-career PHP developers who wish to avoid writing messy code and learn to write understandable and maintainable code to set them apart from rest of the PHP developers and get the job they want. The book assumes a reasonable grasp of PHP coding and principles, but no knowledge of advanced principles will be necessary.

Table of Contents

1. What is Clean Code and Why Should You Care
2. What is Clean Code and Why Should You Care
3. Code, Don't Do Stunts
4. It's About More Than Just Code
5. Optimizing Your Time and Separating Responsibilities
6. PHP is Evolving: Deprecations, Evolutions, and PSR
7. Code Quality Tools
8. Code Quality Metrics
9. Organizing PHP Quality Tools
10. Automating Testing
11. Continuous Integration
12. Working in a team
13. Creating Effective Documentation