PHP: The “Right” Way

Your guide to PHP best practices, coding standards, and authoritative tutorials. Table of Contents Windows Setup Mac Setup Common Directory structure Getting Started Use the Current Stable Version (8.1) Built-in web server Data Filtering Web Application Security Error Reporting Configuration Files Register Globals Security Password Hashing Complementary Testing Tools Test Driven Development Testing Behavior Driven Development Virtual or Dedicated Servers Shared Servers Servers and Deployment Platform as a Service (PaaS) Building and Deploying your Application Docker Vagrant Virtualization Caching Object Caching Opcode Cache PHPDoc Documenting your Code Books People to Follow Other Useful Resources Video Tutorials Components PHP PaaS Providers Resources Frameworks From the Source Community PHP Conferences PHP User Groups ElePHPants Code Style Guide Language Highlights Xdebug Command Line Interface Standard PHP Library Programming Paradigms Namespaces PEAR Composer and Packagist Dependency Management Working with UTF-8 Coding Practices The Basics Design Patterns Internationalization (i18n) and Localization (l10n) Common ways to implement Gettext Date and Time Complex Problem Dependency Injection Containers Basic Concept Further Reading Interacting with Databases MySQL Extension PDO Extension Abstraction Layers Databases Further Reading Benefits Compiled Templates Plain PHP Templates Templating Errors and Exceptions Errors Exceptions