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Clean Code in PHP

You're reading from   Clean Code in PHP Expert tips and best practices to write beautiful, human-friendly, and maintainable PHP

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804613870
Length 264 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alexandre Daubois Alexandre Daubois
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Carsten Windler Carsten Windler
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1 – Introducing Clean Code
2. Chapter 1: What Is Clean Code and Why Should You Care? FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Who Gets to Decide What “Good Practices” Are? 4. Chapter 3: Code, Don’t Do Stunts 5. Chapter 4: It is about More Than Just Code 6. Chapter 5: Optimizing Your Time and Separating Responsibilities 7. Chapter 6: PHP is Evolving – Deprecations and Revolutions 8. Part 2 – Maintaining Code Quality
9. Chapter 7: Code Quality Tools 10. Chapter 8: Code Quality Metrics 11. Chapter 9: Organizing PHP Quality Tools 12. Chapter 10: Automated Testing 13. Chapter 11: Continuous Integration 14. Chapter 12: Working in a Team 15. Chapter 13: Creating Effective Documentation 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Separating responsibilities

Let’s see what the separation of responsibilities in the code consists of, to make it cleaner, understandable, maintainable, and extensible. This is the first point of the SOLID principles. In the second chapter, this is how we defined the principle of single responsibility: “It means that a class in your code must respond to only one task.

As a reminder, SOLID is a set of known clean-code rules that, when applied together, will make your code much clearer and more accurate. Rather than trying to follow the five principles described by each of the SOLID caps to the letter, it is more important to have a global idea of all this in mind when you code.

The first step to respect this is, in fact... naming, as we just saw! Indeed, by naming a class properly, clearly, and, above all, precisely, you are already making sure that it doesn’t become a mess where you put a little bit of everything that you can think of. And it is for...

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