Re: [PHP] PHP Books - A poll of sorts
At 8:52 PM -0500 8/12/07, Jay Blanchard wrote: Evening all! (at least it is evening here in Texas) We all have our favorite PHP books and resources but there is one tome that seems to be missing from the group...a best practices book. We all have our preferences for what we call best practices and it seems at this stage in the life of PHP that there would be a guide to the best of the best. I am not talking about the holy wars here (like bracket placement) I am talking about things like testing variable in conditional situations or the proper use of constructors or ways to leverage the power of PHP with databases. If there was a best practices book would you buy it? (I am showing complete disregard for the thread on copyright infringement v. theft.) Or do you rely on other sources like this list, articles, etc to derive your own set of practices? Thanks for indulging me. Thanks Jay Jay: That might be a good subject, but I find that best practices is a moving target. By the time you finish the book, some of your best practices will be old practices. Cheers, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP Books - A poll of sorts
At 8:06 PM -0700 8/12/07, Janet Valade wrote: Jay Blanchard wrote: If there was a best practices book would you buy it? I would buy it. But, I buy tons of books. Janet Same here. In college, if I didn't have time to read something I Xeroxed it -- now I just buy the book. :-) Cheers, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP Books - A poll of sorts
On Sun, August 12, 2007 8:52 pm, Jay Blanchard wrote: Evening all! (at least it is evening here in Texas) We all have our favorite PHP books and resources but there is one tome that seems to be missing from the group...a best practices book. We all have our preferences for what we call best practices and it seems at this stage in the life of PHP that there would be a guide to the best of the best. I am not talking about the holy wars here (like bracket placement) I am talking about things like testing variable in conditional situations or the proper use of constructors or ways to leverage the power of PHP with databases. If there was a best practices book would you buy it? (I am showing complete disregard for the thread on copyright infringement v. theft.) Or do you rely on other sources like this list, articles, etc to derive your own set of practices? Thanks for indulging me. I personally would not buy it. But I suppose it might sell as well as any of the other zillion PHP books. But you'd have a heck of a time getting even a large minority of PHP developers to agree on best practices for an lot of stuff... -- Some people have a gift link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] PHP Books - A poll of sorts
Evening all! (at least it is evening here in Texas) We all have our favorite PHP books and resources but there is one tome that seems to be missing from the group...a best practices book. We all have our preferences for what we call best practices and it seems at this stage in the life of PHP that there would be a guide to the best of the best. I am not talking about the holy wars here (like bracket placement) I am talking about things like testing variable in conditional situations or the proper use of constructors or ways to leverage the power of PHP with databases. If there was a best practices book would you buy it? (I am showing complete disregard for the thread on copyright infringement v. theft.) Or do you rely on other sources like this list, articles, etc to derive your own set of practices? Thanks for indulging me. Thanks Jay -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP Books - A poll of sorts
On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 20:52 -0500, Jay Blanchard wrote: Evening all! (at least it is evening here in Texas) We all have our favorite PHP books and resources but there is one tome that seems to be missing from the group...a best practices book. We all have our preferences for what we call best practices and it seems at this stage in the life of PHP that there would be a guide to the best of the best. I am not talking about the holy wars here (like bracket placement) I am talking about things like testing variable in conditional situations or the proper use of constructors or ways to leverage the power of PHP with databases. If there was a best practices book would you buy it? (I am showing complete disregard for the thread on copyright infringement v. theft.) Or do you rely on other sources like this list, articles, etc to derive your own set of practices? Thanks for indulging me. I don't buy books on tech. I search the web and read what people post *shrug*. All the knowledge is out there for free. I'm not the type to need it all bundled up fancy schmancy. Cheers, Rob. -- ... SwarmBuy.com - http://www.swarmbuy.com Leveraging the buying power of the masses! ... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP Books - A poll of sorts
The vast majority of my work these days is done using the Drupal CMS, which has its own coding standards and best practices and conventions that are (IMO) pretty darned good. I've adopted most of it in my non-Drupal work, too, for simplicity. So um, maybe, but I probably wouldn't jump at it as I feel I'm already using good enough practices. On Sunday 12 August 2007, Jay Blanchard wrote: Evening all! (at least it is evening here in Texas) We all have our favorite PHP books and resources but there is one tome that seems to be missing from the group...a best practices book. We all have our preferences for what we call best practices and it seems at this stage in the life of PHP that there would be a guide to the best of the best. I am not talking about the holy wars here (like bracket placement) I am talking about things like testing variable in conditional situations or the proper use of constructors or ways to leverage the power of PHP with databases. If there was a best practices book would you buy it? (I am showing complete disregard for the thread on copyright infringement v. theft.) Or do you rely on other sources like this list, articles, etc to derive your own set of practices? Thanks for indulging me. Thanks Jay -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 6817012 If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. -- Thomas Jefferson -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP Books - A poll of sorts
Jay Blanchard wrote: Evening all! (at least it is evening here in Texas) We all have our favorite PHP books and resources but there is one tome that seems to be missing from the group...a best practices book. We all have our preferences for what we call best practices and it seems at this stage in the life of PHP that there would be a guide to the best of the best. I am not talking about the holy wars here (like bracket placement) I am talking about things like testing variable in conditional situations or the proper use of constructors or ways to leverage the power of PHP with databases. If there was a best practices book would you buy it? (I am showing complete disregard for the thread on copyright infringement v. theft.) Or do you rely on other sources like this list, articles, etc to derive your own set of practices? Thanks for indulging me. Thanks Jay I would buy it. But, I buy tons of books. Janet -- Janet Valade -- janet.valade.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] PHP Books - A poll of sorts
On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 20:52 -0500, Jay Blanchard wrote: If there was a best practices book would you buy it? (I am showing complete disregard for the thread on copyright infringement v. theft.) Or do you rely on other sources like this list, articles, etc to derive your own set of practices? Thanks for indulging me. The team that delivers the Chisimba framework (http://avoir.uwc.ac.za), has also developed our own best practices, as well as documentation standards and coding standards. These standards are pretty much in line with most of the large projects out there (I have never needed to look at Drupal, so I cannot comment there), but I am willing to bet that there isn't much of a difference. We publish our coding and doc standards, as well as a bunch of HOWTO's etc to get started, under a CC BY-SA license, so that if people would like to adopt that, or build on it, they are free to do so. I would not mind seeing at least *some* homogeneity in PHP code, across projects, but I still don't think that *all* projects need stick to the same standards - this will ultimately stifle creativity, which is what PHP is all about anyway. Just my R0.02 --Paul All Email originating from UWC is covered by disclaimer http://www.uwc.ac.za/portal/uwc2006/content/mail_disclaimer/index.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
