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March 18, 2014
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[Link] Excellent PHP best practices, 2014 style

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Excellent post on This interests me: A collection of useful best practices in modern PHP development, like

  1. Redirecting the user via header() after a form submit (to prevent resubmitting POST data)
  2. Getting rid of the outdated mysql_* functions
  3. PSR-styles, like not closing PHP tags
  4. Anti-XSS
  5. DRY coding
  6. separating application logic and output
  7. using prepared statements instead of old-school mySQL queries
  8. using try/catch instead of die() and exit()
  9. working with git
  10. caching
  11. design patterns
  12. utf-8
  13. learning to love and use frameworks
  14. security
  15. application testing
  16. documentation
  17. server-side validation
  18. error reporting

and much more … This post will lift your development level dramatically. There’s a lot of stuff that could be added (like writing code that perfectly fits the PSR-guidelines, or Composer, or Vagrant), but in general the information given is extremely useful. Bookmark!

This interests me – PHP best practices

This article was written quite a while ago (9 years), please keep this in mind when using the information written here. Links, code and commands might be outdated or broken.

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