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Clean Code in PHP

You're reading from  Clean Code in PHP

Product type Book
Published in Oct 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804613870
Pages 264 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Carsten Windler Carsten Windler
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Alexandre Daubois Alexandre Daubois
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1 – Introducing Clean Code
2. Chapter 1: What Is Clean Code and Why Should You Care? 3. Chapter 2: Who Gets to Decide What “Good Practices” Are? 4. Chapter 3: Code, Don’t Do Stunts 5. Chapter 4: It is about More Than Just Code 6. Chapter 5: Optimizing Your Time and Separating Responsibilities 7. Chapter 6: PHP is Evolving – Deprecations and Revolutions 8. Part 2 – Maintaining Code Quality
9. Chapter 7: Code Quality Tools 10. Chapter 8: Code Quality Metrics 11. Chapter 9: Organizing PHP Quality Tools 12. Chapter 10: Automated Testing 13. Chapter 11: Continuous Integration 14. Chapter 12: Working in a Team 15. Chapter 13: Creating Effective Documentation 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

We have just covered the most advanced part of the theoretical section of this book. We are now armed with the knowledge to cut our code cleanly while keeping it maintainable and extensible for future developers. It will also be ready for the future by being strongly open to extension and closed to modification (as described in one of the SOLID principles).

We have reviewed many of the cases that you may encounter regarding the naming of files, classes, and methods when developing a PHP application. In addition, we have seen that folders must have specific names and can be used to divide your application into different domains.

The separation of responsibilities was also a big topic. It is particularly important to understand why this separation is useful, even vital, in a project. It is the real key to a well-architected project that is easy to navigate. Event dispatching is an excellent way to achieve this, as we have seen. Event dispatching is one of the cornerstones...

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