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PHP Standards and Best Practices

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A quick history on PHP, some of the major changes, and what is being done by the community to fix the legacy of old tutorials, and outdated learning resources.

PHP-FIG, or PHP Framework Interop Group
PHP the Right Way

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    PHP for years has been the language that programmers interested in web 0:00
    development would learn first. 0:03
    As programmers get better at programming in their language of choice, 0:05
    they grow more confident and release code. 0:08
    Unfortunately, PHP being a language with lots of beginners in it, 0:10
    a lot of this code used to be messy, insecure, and 0:14
    often not the most efficient way of doing things. 0:16
    Developers would then move on to other languages and 0:19
    leave their old code floating around on blogs, meaning other beginners would 0:21
    find that code try using it, and the circle would continue. 0:24
    These days PHP is a much healthier environment with great quality 0:29
    code around. 0:32
    This is in part thanks to projects like the PHP Framework Inter Operability Group, 0:33
    which helps write standards for PHP projects to conform to. 0:37
    Another popular resource is PHP The Right Way, which acts as a living document for 0:40
    up-to-date information about which extensions, packages, frameworks and 0:44
    the like, can be used to achieve certain things. 0:48
    Following advice on here can save you a lot of headaches when you're uploading 0:51
    applications with PHP. 0:54
    Unfortunately, despite the advances in the community, 0:56
    a lot of the old code is still floating around. 0:59
    This course will teach you how to distribute your code in a quality way, and 1:02
    teach you how to look out for good code too, so you know the difference. 1:06

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