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Clean Code in PHP

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Product type Book
Published in Oct 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804613870
Pages 264 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Carsten Windler Carsten Windler
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Alexandre Daubois Alexandre Daubois
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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? 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

Code reviews

The process of manually checking the code of other developers is called a code review. This includes all changes, that is, not only new functionality but also bug fixes or even simple configuration changes.

A review is always done by at least one fellow developer, and it usually happens in the context of a pull request, shortly before the code of a feature or bug fix branch gets merged into the main branch; only if the reviewer approves the changes will they become part of the actual application.

In this section, we will discuss what you should look for in code reviews, why they are so important, and how they should be done to make them a successful tool in your toolkit.

Why you should do code reviews

It might sound a bit obvious because that is what this whole book is about. Yet, it cannot be stressed enough – code reviews will improve the quality of your code. Let us examine more closely why:

  • Easy to introduce: Introducing code reviews usually...
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