26066Best Practices: PHP Coding Stylehttp://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/tim20010101.php3One of PHP's greatest strengths can also be a great weakness in the wrong hands. I'm talking about its forgiving nature. One of the reasons why PHP has become so wildly popular is because it lets very inexperienced web developers build powerful applications without much planning, consistency, or documentation.PHP > Tips and Tutorials > DevelopmentOct 15, 2006
In part 4 of this tutorial we take a look at adding a new MessageAction method to our current Controller. This will expect one piece of information: a new chat message.
One of the most important aspects of coding visually is your coding style. Each person chooses his own style, but good coding style is always readable and consistent. In this post I will share with you my own coding style, separated to elements.
Web developers who wish to use their time as efficiently as possible, should consider using an integrated development environment (IDE), if they are not already doing so. Just as the name suggests, a typical IDE provides the developer with an integrated suite of programming products, including an editor with multi-file editing, multiple undo and redo, local and global search and replace, stream and paragraph text selection, code-folding, multi-line tabbing, automatic creation and coloring of matching braces, intelligent indenting and outdenting of code, and more.
It's hard to debug a CGI program. After all, you're not actually running it (unless your name is httpd). But when those bugs show up, a little creative thinking will help you overcome that limitation. Let's talk about a technique I've found to be very useful for debugging CGI programs written with the PHP scripting language. While the same basic idea could be applied to CGI programs written in other languages, the class extensions to PHP make the process a little more elegant, as well as easy to apply to many CGI scripts without a lot of extra work. (If you're not familiar with PHP, see the box titled " What Is PHP?")
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