PHP BEST PRACTICES

*Industry standards
*Developing applications on company level

**BEST PRACTICES:
-Processes that have been shown most effective
-Greater number of positive outcomes

1.) Referring to a PHP Manual.
2.) Following coding standards.
-Use meaningful and consistent naming conventions
-Use comments, showing the functions of the codes

3.) PHP IDE's
-You can use this as a reference: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-php-ide/index.html

4.) PHP FRAMEWORK
-You can use this as a reference: http://www.phpframeworks.com/

5.) Learn dry
-This only means that you don't have to repeat things that are already done.

6.) Install WAMP/XXAMP/MAMP
WAMP- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAMP
XXAMP- http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html
MAMP- http://www.mamp.info/en/index.html




-A summary of the Youth For Information Technology(Y4IT 2009) topic, day 3.