coding standards

Michelangelo van Dam has written up a quick introductory post on his blog about the process around throwing and catching exceptions in your apps.

Robert Basic recently posted this introduction to the Zend Framework, a simple overview to how the framework is laid out and how you can get started.

Mike Bernat has come up with a list of (eight things) his best practices when it comes to PHP development:

I suggest a more retro-active approach [than trial and error].

Studying, surrounding, and forcing yourself to abide by best-practice coding standards will yield surprising results in your applications despite the fact that it may seem like more work than it's worth.

Topics included in his list are things like:

Probably worth noting MISRA-C++. Not much to go on since you have to pay for the document that outlines the standards.

MISRA C++:2008 was finally released on June 5, 2008, following 3 years of work by a group of willing volunteers.

They set out to craft a set of rules for the safe use of C++ in critical systems...

Matthew Weier O’Phinney and I gave a tutorial session at ZendCon 2008 this year titled “PHP Developer Best Practices”.

The tutorial touched on source control, coding standards, testing, documentation, and more.

The slides are now available in PDF format.

On the SaniSoft blog Tarique Sani has posted about (and made available for download) some code sniffs for the CakePHP framework.

Some problems arose with some of the naming that the framework uses, but with some "tinkering around"...

Stefan Priebsch recently posted about his struggles with creating a custom coding started with the PHP_CodeSniffer package:

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I have tried to write a custom coding standard for PHP_CodeSniffer.

I've known for some time, but was reluctant to blog about it until the plane tickets were purchased and in hand: I've been invited to speak at the Dutch PHP Conference this coming June:

My work life has been quite busy lately and I haven't had a chance to sit down and blog. I have been touring around London and some parts of the northern England consulting and organizing some training here and there.

Luckily I have had the chance to do some work on Imagick and the 2.2.0 beta release is getting closer. The internal structure was completely restructured and broken down into several smaller files.

During this time Imagick was adapted to follow the PHP Coding Standards more closely.