[iGeekOut]

I've been doing PHP just over 3 weeks now and recently moved onto learning OOP and Design Patterns like MVC because when I do something I like doing it right, so I googled and found phptherightway.com
which lead me to php-fig.org so I decided to follow them and have already started to implement the best practices in projects.

So I was wondering if anyone else follows the PSR standards, and if so do you have any tips?

What I use:

Sublime Text 3
iTerm2
Vagrant LAMP Stack

[MineSQL]

I tend to pick and choose which guidelines to follow and which not to. I never had bad habits when I started coding, so the only thing that annoys me is the standard of braces on new lines for classes, methods, and functions.

example:

PHP Code


<?php 
//"the right way"
class Action
{

    public $lawsuit = "money";

    public function GetLawsuit()
    {
      return $this->lawsuit;
    }

} 


This just looks better to me

PHP Code


<?php 
class Action {

    public $lawsuit = "money";

    public function GetLawsuit() {
      return $this->lawsuit;
    }
} 


[base]

I tend to pick and choose which guidelines to follow and which not to. I never had bad habits when I started coding, so the only thing that annoys me is the standard of braces on new lines for classes, methods, and functions.

example:

PHP Code


<?php 
//"the right way"
class Action
{

    public $lawsuit = "money";

    public function GetLawsuit()
    {
      return $this->lawsuit;
    }

} 


This just looks better to me

PHP Code


<?php 
class Action {

    public $lawsuit = "money";

    public function GetLawsuit() {
      return $this->lawsuit;
    }
} 


As someone whose been coding PHP for a few years, I also prefer the latter, however when working on OSS or in a group/team project it's best to adhere to the project standards.

[iGeekOut]

I don't mind it but that's because I am new, but if you've been coding a while you tend to pick up your own style and can be hard to change, but what I can't argue with is having an space for things like foreach and if, which adds to the readability.

PHP Code


<?php 
$names = ['Nicholas Cage', 'Adam Sandler', 'Liam Neeson'];

/* PSR-2 Compliant */
foreach ($names as $name) {
    // loop
}

/* Not PSR-2 Compliant */
foreach($names as $name) {
    // loop
} 


But if you're stuck in writing your code without complying to PSR-2 but want to, you can simply run PHP_CodeSniffer which will check your code, and in some cases fix most of your mistakes automatically and tell you the lines of the others which it can't. I use the command line version but there are plugins available.

[c00perzz]

I agree with MineSQL. I too prefer that "way" of coding as it i find it easier and the code is more tidy!

[stackoverflowin]

I prefer his first way to be honest, it's easier to read and a lot more "fluent" in my eyes.