Becoming A Php Ninja

Becoming a PHP ninjaMd. Emran Hasan

emran@rightbrainsolution.com

About me

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Doing PHP for 5+ years

Developer, consultant, manager

CTO, Right Brain Solution Ltd.

Previous: SWI, Pageflakes, Trippert Labs.

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Introduction

This presentation is about:

– development practices

– personal development

DEVELOPMENT PRACTICES

1. Coding standards

• Readable code

• Easy to maintain

• Documentation

<?

// Method 1 if($condition)function1($a, $b, $c);if($i < 7 && $j > 8 || $k == 4)a($i);

?>

<?php

// Method 2 if ($condition) {

getUser($id, $username, $key); }

If (($i < 7) && (($j < 8) || ($k == 4))) {

displayGraph($value); }

• PEAR Coding Standardshttp://pear.php.net/manual/en/standards.php

• Zend Framework Coding Standardshttp://framework.zend.com/manual/en/coding-standard.html

• eZ Components Implementation guidelineshttp://www.ezcomponents.org/contributing/coding_standards

2. Code Commenting

• Reduced code understanding time

• Serves as a documentation

• Answer the question: WHY??

/**

* Add number

*

* This function will take two integer numbers and will

* return the addition result of them.

*

* @param int first number

* @param int second number

* @return int addition result

*/

function addNumbers($firstNum, $secondNum)

3. Code re-use

• Re-use code across projects

• Refactor every now & then

• Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY)

4. Code testing

• Gives confidence

• Unit testing in rescue

• Test Driven Development (TDD)

• PHPUnit - http://www.phpunit.de

• SimpleTest - http://www.simpletest.org

5. PHP Framework

• Forces good structure

• Ready to use libraries

• Solves most real-life problems

80% - 20%

• Zend Framework - http://framework.zend.com

• CodeIgniter - http://www.codeigniter.com

• CakePHP - http://cakephp.org/

• Symfony - http://www.symfony-project.org

6. Source Control (SCM)

• Your own personal UNDO

• Compare, rollback, track source code

• Must for team collaboration

• Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org

• Git - http://git-scm.com

7. PHP IDE

• Increased productivity

• Reduced error in code

• Debugging, profiling

• Eclipse PDThttp://www.eclipse.org/pdt

• Netbeans IDEhttp://www.netbeans.org

• NuSphere PHPEdhttp://www.nusphere.com

• Zend Studio for Eclipsehttp://www.zend.com/en/products/studio

8. Quality Code

Your PHP code should

– be simple

– get the job done

– be secure

– be scalable

– be maintainable

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

9. Being Communicative

• Increased productivity

• Reduces confusion

• Builds synergy in team

10. Being Agile

• Working iteratively and incrementally

• Being responsible

• Being open minded

11. Updating yourself

• Trying new technology

• Reading blogs

• Get updated through RSS

• Planet PHP – http://planet-php.net

• PHPDeveloper – http://phpdeveloper.org

• Sitepoint – http://sitepoint.com

• PHP Classes – http://phpclasses.org

12. Community involvement

• Starting to write blog

• Participate in forum and communities

• Contribute in open source projects

Questions?

Contact

+880 161 PHPFOUR

@phpfour

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