PHP Programming guidelines

Matthias Noback has posted a series of articles on Programming Guidelines:

PHP is pretty much a freestyle programming language. It's dynamic and quite forgiving towards the programmer. As a PHP developer you therefore need a lot of discipline to get your code right. Over the years I've read many programming books and discussed code style with many fellow developers. I can't remember which rules come from which book or person, but this article (and the following ones) reflect what I see as some of the most helpful rules for delivering better code: code that is future-proof, because it can be read and understood quite well. Fellow developers can reason about it with certainty, quickly spot problems, and easily use it in other parts of a code base.

Continue reading:

• Part 1: Programming guidelines - Part 1: Reducing complexity
• Part 2: Programming guidelines - Part 2: Getting rid of null
• Part 3: Programming guidelines - Part 3: The life and death of objects
• Part 4: Programming guidelines - Part 4: Messages