Comments on: PHP Best Practices For Beginners

By: Refundacija

Refundacija — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:03:45 +0000

Hello Eric, I'm a php beginner and this article is right for me :) I'm in the proces of creating my first simple app, so thanks for the tips, really appreciated.
Will try Codeigniter in few months as you suggest.

By: Eric Bannatyne

Eric Bannatyne — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:24:01 +0000

Ah, I see what you mean :)

By: Cany000n

Cany000n — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:30:38 +0000

@eric
i was just joking, It was in rapport being strictly as possible, in fact, not like my english is ;) Bookmarked. ++

By: Eric Bannatyne

Eric Bannatyne — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:03:21 +0000

That's probably a bit better. And it is, unfortunately, something that I forget to use all the time!

By: Cany000n

Cany000n — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:25:13 +0000

$a = hugeFunction();
 
while ($c === $someValue) {
    echo $c + $a;
    // blah
}

Better, no? Also little bit faster. ;)

By: Eric Bannatyne

Eric Bannatyne — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:19:05 +0000

Did I say that? I guess I may not have been completely clear with that. I was saying that you should remember to use quotes around the index.

But that is a good point to remember :)

By: James - SEOHeap

James - SEOHeap — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:23:10 +0000

echo 'asdf ', $a, ' asdf';
Using commas instead of creating a new string.
Well, you learn something new every day. Thanks.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:45:07 +0000

Short tags are great for a lot of things especially improving code readability. When you have a large chunk of html with sporadic variables placed it is much easier to read more than . Php isn't a strict language. You're asking people to slow down their scripts with superfluous code. This isn't C, unless you're using OOP you don't need to declare your variables. 2 assignments $foo = array(); $foo['bar'] = ""; 1 assignment $foo['bar'] = ""; I like a lot of your other suggestions though.

By: mario

mario — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:05:58 +0000

"Prefer Single Quoted Strings When Possible"
Repeating silly assumptions over and over doesn't make them true.
The PHP parser (and tokenizer!) have been optimized quite sime time ago. There is no factual speed advantage in using single quotes, in many cases double quotes are actually faster. This has been posted all over the tubes. Read up.

And then, speed difference in string quotation should be the least of your worries. If you are string concating database queries and not using parameterized SQL, this *SLIGHTLY* outweights anything else speed-wise. (Let's not get started about security even.)
So panicking about coding style and quotation method is not appropriate if you don't even master the basics.

By: SeanJA

SeanJA — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:10:49 +0000

I think your best suggestion is "try a framework".