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PHP Standards and Best Practices

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Introduction

1:38 with Phil Sturgeon

A quick overview of what this course aims to teach you. If you are a beginner at programming in general then take part in the Introduction to Programming course. To learn more about PHP specifically, consider the PHP Basics course.

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    [MUSIC] 0:00
    [NOISE] PHP, a language belittled by many yet still used by millions of 0:04
    websites around the world to power about 80% of the internet. 0:07
    How does it manage this? 0:11
    Well, on one hand, it's very, very easy to knock out really simple websites. 0:13
    On the other hand, these sites can be insecure or have terrible code quality. 0:17
    To keep the benefits of PHP's ease of use, but 0:21
    improve our code quality, we can focus on standards and best practices. 0:23
    My name's Phil Sturgeon and I've been using PHP for over a decade, 0:28
    I've been involved with some popular open source projects like CodeIgniter, 0:32
    FuelPHP and Piracy MS. 0:35
    I've released code that is being used by Apple, Google, Facebook and 0:38
    the US government, all written in PHP. 0:42
    Over the years I've seen my PHP code go from terrible to reasonable following 0:46
    an awful amount of trial and error and a massive amount of research. 0:49
    These days PHP has a lot more high quality resources out there and 0:53
    we will look through a few of those to help us write better PHP. 0:56
    There are also some standards created by various bodies around the internet, 1:00
    like the IETF, who work on things like the HTTP spec, and W3C, 1:03
    who are responsible for HTML. 1:08
    Generally, it's a group of people who [SOUND] theoretically know a thing or 1:10
    two, who come together to hash out standards which everyone can then follow. 1:13
    Best practices and general advice is passed on from developer to developer to 1:16
    help people avoid common problems, things like interacting with data stores, 1:20
    caching, security, designing how you write your code, and anything else, really. 1:24
    Basically, in this video, we can help you skip a few months or 1:30
    years of getting things wrong with PHP, so you can get on with doing things right, 1:32
    like making awesome software. 1:36

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