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Re: PHP 5.5.8 Released

#11

Friendly reminder that we can't have anything involving PHP without: * complaints about features it has or has not * a reference to that "a fractal of bad design" article * how language x is better * sarcastic, ironic or post-ironic notes about the above * one guy pointing out we can't have anything involving PHP without the above

Posts about how needle/haystack hackstack/needle makes it "completely unusable"

Re: PHP 5.5.8 Released

#13
PHP has a reputation as a language that makes dead easy to write very ugly sphagetti code. As far as I learned a lot has chaned since last time I was using PHP - something like 5 years ago.

Is there any good book or other resource which describes modern PHP with best practices, parts to avoid, etc?

Re: PHP 5.5.8 Released

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post #13

PHP has a reputation as a language that makes dead easy to write very ugly sphagetti code. As far as I learned a lot has chaned since last time I was using PHP - something like 5 years ago. Is there any good book or other resource which describes modern PHP with best practices, parts to avoid, etc?

I'd recommend this for modern PHP: http://www.nodebeginner.org/

It's a great intro on how to write sphagetti code with out losing face.

Re: PHP 5.5.8 Released

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post #13

PHP has a reputation as a language that makes dead easy to write very ugly sphagetti code. As far as I learned a lot has chaned since last time I was using PHP - something like 5 years ago. Is there any good book or other resource which describes modern PHP with best practices, parts to avoid, etc?

I've seen this around a few times, seems to be what you're looking for http://www.phptherightway.com

Re: PHP 5.5.8 Released

#17

Friendly reminder that we can't have anything involving PHP without: * complaints about features it has or has not * a reference to that "a fractal of bad design" article * how language x is better * sarcastic, ironic or post-ironic notes about the above * one guy pointing out we can't have anything involving PHP without the above

Posts about how needle/haystack hackstack/needle makes it "completely unusable"

No kidding, I mean I put square wheels on my car and it works just fine on my catenary road. Automotive engineers should get out of their circular wheel ivory tower now and then and see how good it works in practice.

Re: PHP 5.5.8 Released

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post #15
post #13

PHP has a reputation as a language that makes dead easy to write very ugly sphagetti code. As far as I learned a lot has chaned since last time I was using PHP - something like 5 years ago. Is there any good book or other resource which describes modern PHP with best practices, parts to avoid, etc?

I'd recommend this for modern PHP: http://www.nodebeginner.org/ It's a great intro on how to write sphagetti code with out losing face.

Are you sure it's a PHP book? It says it's a node.js book.

Re: PHP 5.5.8 Released

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post #13

PHP has a reputation as a language that makes dead easy to write very ugly sphagetti code. As far as I learned a lot has chaned since last time I was using PHP - something like 5 years ago. Is there any good book or other resource which describes modern PHP with best practices, parts to avoid, etc?

I am reading "Apress Expert PHP and MySQL", the code is very releasable, it teach good practices about security and sql management, is more target to beginners and intermediate level programmers, but i really like how the author view and teaching skills.

Re: PHP 5.5.8 Released

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post #15
post #13

PHP has a reputation as a language that makes dead easy to write very ugly sphagetti code. As far as I learned a lot has chaned since last time I was using PHP - something like 5 years ago. Is there any good book or other resource which describes modern PHP with best practices, parts to avoid, etc?

I'd recommend this for modern PHP: http://www.nodebeginner.org/ It's a great intro on how to write sphagetti code with out losing face.

This is not a PHP book, and is pretty old to begin with.
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