Practical lessons, examples, and practices from PHP experts on how to
take your PHP skills to a professional level
Key Features:
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Easily navigate to key clean code principles specific to PHP
development with this hands-on guide
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Learn the how and why of writing clean code through practical examples
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Skip the superfluous knowledge and grasp everything that's 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.
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.
What You Will Learn:
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Build a solid foundation in clean coding to craft human-readable code
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Understand metrics to determine the quality of your code
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Get to grips with the basics of automated tests
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Implement continuous integration for your PHP applications
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Get an overview of software design patterns to help you write reusable
code
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Gain an understanding of coding guidelines and practices for working
in teams
Who this book is for:
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.
