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Basic rules for good PHP

I really wish that someone had showed me something like this page when I was starting to learn PHP. I could have saved myself from writing a lot of really bad code.

It’s also got a really nice explanation of what changes are required of your code when register_globals is turned off. I’m slowly working through some of my old code and converting it to play nice when register_globals is turned off, and I can’t be the only one.

(I shall now return to my hidey-hole and crunch on mySQL for another week or so…)

This entry was posted on Saturday, August 3rd, 2002 at 11:27 pm and is filed under Suggested reading. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

2 Responses to “Basic rules for good PHP”

  1. Lynda Says:
    August 4th, 2002 at 12:34 pm

    Thanks for the link, Amy! I recently figured out some of those great tips for myself, the hard way. hehe.

    I don’t agree with register_globals being turned off though. I have yet to come by a host who thinks it really will help with security. So until I start coding for money (ha!) I think all my scripts are going to be written with the assumption that register_globals is on.

  2. Aubrey Says:
    August 6th, 2002 at 11:51 am

    I have a php journalling script that I (very, VERY) badly coded last summer, and I had been looking around for ways to improve it. Heh, well, I’ll be using the tips from that link now to make my script more efficient! Thanks for posting it!