Working in a Team

The main goal of this book is to enable you to write code that can be understood, maintained, and extended by you and others. Most of the time, being a PHP developer means that you do not work alone on a project or a tool. And even if you started writing code alone, chances are high that at some point, another developer will join you – be it on a commercial product, or your open source package where other developers start adding new features or bug fixes.

There will always be multiple ways to carry out a task in software development. This is what makes working in a team more challenging when you want to write clean code together. In this chapter, you will find several tips and best practices on how to set up coding standards and coding guidelines. We will also talk about how code reviews will improve the code and ensure the guidelines are kept.

We will also explore the topic of design patterns in more detail at the end of this chapter. These patterns...