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 larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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