[Link] Excellent PHP best practices, 2014 style

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 Getting rid of the outdated mysql_* functions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