RE: [PHP] Re: Best Practices Book, Document, Web Site?

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob McConnell [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 7:52 AM
> To: pan; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [PHP] Re: Best Practices Book, Document, Web Site?
> 
> From: pan
> > ""Hansen, Mike"" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
> >>
> news:[email protected]
> el.com...
> >> Is there a PHP Best Practices Book, Document, or web site that has 
> >> information similar to Perl Best Practices but for PHP?
> > 
> > Yeah, it's hard to find this stuff.
> > 
> > A google search on {+"Best Practices" +"PHP"} returned only
> > 4,340,000 hits.
> > 
> > Maybe, some day, someone will think to write something up.
> 
> The problem with this method is that scanning these results reveals
> conflicting and contradictory recommendations that are all over the
> place. Some are so old they may not even be valid PHP any 
> more. Reading
> even a small subset of these pages is an exercise in frustration. But
> that makes sense as there doesn't appear to be any consistency nor
> consensus within the community, or even within some of the larger
> projects.
> 
> Speaking of consensus, based on a recent discussion on the Perl
> Beginners mailing list, the Perl Best Practices book is now considered
> to be deprecated among the active Perl community. Many of its
> recommendations are obsolete and no longer used. It is long 
> past due for
> a major rewrite.
> 
> Bob McConnell

Yep. Perl Best Practices is due for a rewrite/update. I came across this page that attempts to update it:
http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?pbp_module_recommendation_commentary

For PHP, I'll stick with the PEAR recommendations and do the best I can with whatever is missing.

Thanks.