Jan 23, 2013 by Matt | Posted in Coding
There’s a lot of outdated information on the Web that leads new PHP users astray, propagating bad practices and bad code. This must stop. PHP: The Right Way is an easy-to-read, quick reference for PHP best practices, accepted coding standards, and links to authoritative tutorials around the Web.
PHP: The Right Way is a useful guide to how to write PHP that won’t make other developers cringe in horror. It starts off with some tips on how to manage your development environment and then gets to the good part: what not to do. Advice is featured on matters such as database access, password hashing, and other security issues.
The site is an excellent central resource that gives a good overview of things that every beginning PHP developer should be aware of.
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