Community News: PHPBestPractices.org - A Short Practical Guide
Note: This article was originally published at PHPDeveloper
on 23 August 2012.
There's another site tossing their hat into the "best practices in PHP" ring (the other being PHP The Right Way) with what they call a "short, practical list for common and confusing tasks" in PHP - PHPBestPractices.org.
[Outdated tutorials and information is] one of the reasons why new PHP programmers are so frequently blamed for ugly, outdated, or insecure code. They can't help it if the first Google result was a four year old article teaching a five year old method! This document tries to address that. It's an attempt to compile a set of basic instructions for what can be considered best practices for common and confusing issues and tasks in PHP. If a low-level task has multiple and confusing approaches in PHP, it belongs here.
The site has sections for topics like:
- PHP & MySQL
- Single vs Double Quotes
- PHP regular expressions
- Validating emails
- Checking null and false values
If you're interested in helping out and adding more content to the site, contain the maintainer and let him know.