5 ways to awesome-ize your (php) code

5 Ways to Awesome-ize Your (PHP) Code

Jeremy Kendall

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I love to code

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I love to code

I’m terribly forgetful

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I love to code

I’m terribly forgetful

I take pictures

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I love to code

I’m terribly forgetful

I take pictures

I work at OpenSky

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What Are These 5 Ways of Which You Speak?

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Use Version Control

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Use Version Control

‣ If you aren’t using version control, use git

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Use Version Control

‣ If you aren’t using version control, use git

Install git

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Use Version Control

‣ If you aren’t using version control, use git

Install git

cd /path/to/project

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Use Version Control

‣ If you aren’t using version control, use git

Install git

cd /path/to/project

git init

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Use Version Control

‣ If you aren’t using version control, use git

Install git

cd /path/to/project

git init

git add .

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Use Version Control

‣ If you aren’t using version control, use git

Install git

cd /path/to/project

git init

git add .

git commit -m “Just saved the company”

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Use Version Control

‣ If you aren’t using version control, use git

Install git

cd /path/to/project

git init

git add .

git commit -m “Just saved the company”

‣ Interactive tutorial at http://try.github.io

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or Else . . .

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Error Reporting: Turn it Up!

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Error Reporting: Turn it Up!‣ Turn error reporting all the way up in dev

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Error Reporting: Turn it Up!‣ Turn error reporting all the way up in dev

‣ Helps find existing problems

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Error Reporting: Turn it Up!‣ Turn error reporting all the way up in dev

‣ Helps find existing problems

‣ Helps head off future pain

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Error Reporting: Turn it Up!‣ Turn error reporting all the way up in dev

‣ Helps find existing problems

‣ Helps head off future pain

‣ Don’t say it’s just an E_NOTICE . . .

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Error Reporting: Turn it Up!‣ Turn error reporting all the way up in dev

‣ Helps find existing problems

‣ Helps head off future pain

‣ Don’t say it’s just an E_NOTICE . . .

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Error Reporting: Dev

display_errors = Ondisplay_startup_errors = Onerror_reporting = -1log_errors = On

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Error Reporting: Prod

display_errors = Offdisplay_startup_errors = Offerror_reporting = E_ALLlog_errors = On

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Ditch NIH

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Ditch NIH

‣ If you write it all yourself . . .

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Ditch NIH

‣ If you write it all yourself . . .

‣ . . . you maintain it all yourself

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Ditch NIH

‣ If you write it all yourself . . .

‣ . . . you maintain it all yourself

‣ Eventually you have very little time for either . . .

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Real, Actual Work

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Real, Actual Work

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A Life

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Ditch NIH

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Ditch NIH

‣ Offload work to the open source community

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Ditch NIH

‣ Offload work to the open source community

‣ Install Composer (http://getcomposer.org)

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Ditch NIH

‣ Offload work to the open source community

‣ Install Composer (http://getcomposer.org)

‣ Search Packagist (http://packagist.org)

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Ditch NIH

‣ Offload work to the open source community

‣ Install Composer (http://getcomposer.org)

‣ Search Packagist (http://packagist.org)

‣ Add dependency to composer.json

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Ditch NIH

‣ Offload work to the open source community

‣ Install Composer (http://getcomposer.org)

‣ Search Packagist (http://packagist.org)

‣ Add dependency to composer.json

‣ Run composer install or composer update

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Ditch NIH

‣ Offload work to the open source community

‣ Install Composer (http://getcomposer.org)

‣ Search Packagist (http://packagist.org)

‣ Add dependency to composer.json

‣ Run composer install or composer update

‣ Everyone needs logging. Go install monolog.

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DRY Up Your DB

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DRY Up Your DB

‣ If you’re not using PDO, switch now.

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DRY Up Your DB

‣ If you’re not using PDO, switch now.

‣ If you’re not using prepared statements, switch now.

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DRY Up Your DB

‣ If you’re not using PDO, switch now.

‣ If you’re not using prepared statements, switch now.

‣ Replace connections and queries one at a time

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DRY Up Your DB

‣ If you’re not using PDO, switch now.

‣ If you’re not using prepared statements, switch now.

‣ Replace connections and queries one at a time

‣ (or one group at a time)

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DRY Up Your DB

‣ If you’re not using PDO, switch now.

‣ If you’re not using prepared statements, switch now.

‣ Replace connections and queries one at a time

‣ (or one group at a time)

‣ Combine with simple data access objects

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DRY Up Your DBclass UserDao{ protected $db;

public function __construct(\PDO $db) { $this->db = $db; }

public function find($id) { $sql = 'SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = :id'; $stmt = $this->db->prepare($sql); $stmt->bindValue(':id', $id); $stmt->execute();

return $stmt->fetch(); }}

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DRY Up Your DBclass UserDao{ protected $db;

public function __construct(\PDO $db) { $this->db = $db; }

public function find($id) { $sql = 'SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = :id'; $stmt = $this->db->prepare($sql); $stmt->bindValue(':id', $id); $stmt->execute();

return $stmt->fetch(); }}

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DRY Up Your DBclass UserDao{ protected $db;

public function __construct(\PDO $db) { $this->db = $db; }

public function find($id) { $sql = 'SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = :id'; $stmt = $this->db->prepare($sql); $stmt->bindValue(':id', $id); $stmt->execute();

return $stmt->fetch(); }}

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DRY Up Your DBclass UserDao{ protected $db;

public function __construct(\PDO $db) { $this->db = $db; }

public function find($id) { $sql = 'SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = :id'; $stmt = $this->db->prepare($sql); $stmt->bindValue(':id', $id); $stmt->execute();

return $stmt->fetch(); }}

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DRY Up Your DBclass UserDao{ protected $db;

public function __construct(\PDO $db) { $this->db = $db; }

public function find($id) { $sql = 'SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = :id'; $stmt = $this->db->prepare($sql); $stmt->bindValue(':id', $id); $stmt->execute();

return $stmt->fetch(); }}

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Or Just Pick Something from Packagist

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Start Writing Beautiful Code

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Start Writing Beautiful Code‣ It’s time for a coding standard!

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Start Writing Beautiful Code‣ It’s time for a coding standard!

‣ Makes life so much easier

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Start Writing Beautiful Code‣ It’s time for a coding standard!

‣ Makes life so much easier

‣ Pick someone else’s

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Start Writing Beautiful Code‣ It’s time for a coding standard!

‣ Makes life so much easier

‣ Pick someone else’s

‣ Use automated tools to enforce

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Start Writing Beautiful Code‣ It’s time for a coding standard!

‣ Makes life so much easier

‣ Pick someone else’s

‣ Use automated tools to enforce

‣ php-cs-fixer

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Start Writing Beautiful Code‣ It’s time for a coding standard!

‣ Makes life so much easier

‣ Pick someone else’s

‣ Use automated tools to enforce

‣ php-cs-fixer

‣ PHP_CodeSniffer

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Start Writing Beautiful Code‣ It’s time for a coding standard!

‣ Makes life so much easier

‣ Pick someone else’s

‣ Use automated tools to enforce

‣ php-cs-fixer

‣ PHP_CodeSniffer

‣ Refactor bit-by-bit

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Bonus!

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PHP: The Right Way

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PHP: The Right Way

‣ Go to http://www.phptherightway.com/

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PHP: The Right Way

‣ Go to http://www.phptherightway.com/

‣ Start reading

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PHP: The Right Way

‣ Go to http://www.phptherightway.com/

‣ Start reading

‣ Don’t stop reading

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PHP: The Right Way

‣ Go to http://www.phptherightway.com/

‣ Start reading

‣ Don’t stop reading

‣ Do it “The Right Way” for 6 months

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PHP: The Right Way

‣ Go to http://www.phptherightway.com/

‣ Start reading

‣ Don’t stop reading

‣ Do it “The Right Way” for 6 months

‣ Then pick and choose

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Thanks!

jeremy@jeremykendall.net

http://about.me/jeremykendall

@jeremykendall

http://365.jeremykendall.net

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