DZone.com: Writing Better PHP: Three Guides
Note: This article was originally published at PHPDeveloper
on 14 December 2011.
On DZone.com today John Esposito has posted about three guides that want to help you improve your PHP development skills (including a forum post and two articles).
Sometimes, then, improving your generic 'programming brain' will help you improve your facility with a particular language. At other times, it's more important to learn the nuances of a language, paying close attention to the kind of applications the language is used for. [...] For improving your PHP, then, you can do two things: become a better programmer; and understand PHP more finely, more deeply.
The three guides share a lot of the same concepts in common - naming conventions, separation of functionality, DRY (don't repeat yourself), testing code, etc.