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the core of PHP is contributed by people who are solely interested in making PHP better for their professional endeavors

it can be as simple as contributing to the documentation, or submitting a bug report

The community exists because people choose to contribute.

file a bug report or write some documentation today.

Remember: PHP depends on people just like you.

My Boss told me to prepare a paper how we interact good with open source project and how we can generate a win win situation on both sides by submitting (correct) bugreports.

This would be the combined voices of everyone in your past that tried to teach you the mantra: “Plan First, Code Later”.

The Documentation Wasteland

If you’re writing your code without any sort of documentation, you’re dooming you and possibly future maintainers of the code into many a pointless search to try to figure out why method a() returns two completely different value types depending on which parameters it’s given.

ets you know the “why” instead of just the “how” the code gives you

You’d be surprised how often you’ll find yourself referring to it once it’s reliable.

Free Your Mind

You, as a developer, know that there’s always more than one way to solve a problem.

Just like ‘anti patterns’, who are an important read as well, ‘worst practices’ help developers avoid mistakes.

2. Use Many Tables With PHP and MYSQL for Scalability – Matt Mullenweg

3. Never, ever trust your users – Dave Child

4. Invest in PHP Caching – Ben Balbo

5. Speed up PHP Development with an IDE, Templates and Snippets – Chad Kieffer

6. Make Better Use of PHP’s Filter Functions – Joey Sochacki

7. Use a PHP Framework – Josh Sharp

8. Don’t use a PHP Framework – Rasmus Lerdorf

9. Use Batch Processing – Jack D. Herrington

10. Turn on Error Reporting Immediately – David Cummings

JavaScript only recognizes the keyword true in all lowercase. PHP accepts both uppercase and lowercase

PHP is not case-sensitive in function or class declarations, but JavaScript is case sensitive for these also.

The key difference between PHP and JavaScript is that JavaScript does not have associative arrays.

JSON strings having become very popular as a faster alternative to XML, and can be read and created with the PHP functions json_encode() and json_decode().

Let's take one more look at defining an object in JavaScript and see how it can be used to compensate for the lack of associative arrays in JavaScript.

// Note that variables should always be// prefixed with "var" to define a local scope.for (var n = 0; n < 10; n++) {  alert(n);}

So, are there any frameworks that don’t suck? Rasmus did mention that he liked CodeIgniter because it is faster, lighter and the least like a framework.

It all starts with “I don’t need a framework.” 2. Then you create 7 classes. 3. Now you have a small library of classes. 4. Then you create an application that uses your library. 5. It works and it’s fast, hurray! 6. Then someone asks you to extend the functionality of your application. 7. And they keep asking for more, and more, and more and more… 8. Now you have 43 classes. 9. You’ve learn so much in the last 2 years. Design patterns, security, performance, testing… 10. What once was a small library is now a big, ugly, un-tested, un-documented, scary framework. 11. Then you change jobs. 12. And you create another 7 classes… This has been happening for the last 30 years.