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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

IDE extensions

The tools we looked at so far share something in common: they need to be applied to our code after we have written it. Of course, this is much better than nothing, but wouldn’t it be great if the tools gave us their feedback immediately at the time that we wrote the code?

That is what many other developers thought as well, so they created extensions for the most popular IDEs, which are currently Visual Studio Code (VS Code) and PhpStorm:

  • PhpStorm is an established, commercial IDE from JetBrains with several PHP-specific tools, checks, and built-in integrations for many of the code quality tools we discussed in this chapter. There are many useful extensions available for it as well. You can try it out for 30 days for free.
  • VS Code is a highly flexible code editor from Microsoft with tons of third-party (partly commercial) extensions that can turn these tools into an IDE for virtually every relevant programming language today. Because the code editor...
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