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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

Static Code Analysis

Static Code Analysis means that the only source of information is the code itself. Just by scanning the source code, these tools will find issues and problems that even the most senior developer in your team would miss during a code review.

These are the tools we would like to introduce you to in the next sections:

  • phpcpd
  • PHPMD
  • PHPStan
  • Psalm

phpcpd – the copy and paste detector

Copy and paste programming can be anything from simply annoying to a real threat to your projects. Bugs, security issues, and bad practices will get copied around and thus become harder to fix. Think of it as though it were a plague spreading through your code.

This form of programming is quite common, especially among less experienced developers, or in projects where the deadlines are very tight. Luckily, our clean code toolkit offers a remedy – the PHP copy and paste detector (phpcpd).

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