programming practices

[ignace]

Which are considered to be the best programming practices? for example i prefer to not store sessions into files (as done by default by php), but in a database as this gives me the possibility to use the same session on multiple servers, this is possible because of the session_set_save_handler() function! So which do you use (non-oop)?

 

To enlarge the topic a bit: which threads are all out there and how do you solve them (e.g.: cross site scripting)?

[Ninjakreborn]

Never let anyone rub there practices off on you.  Listen to multiple view points and do what you think is best.

I PERSONALLY find

MVC a good pattern

OOP a good programming standard.

I also like to avoid ternary operator,  and shorthand all together.

I keep other basic rules in mind for myself when programming php

1. Always use full open tags <?php and avoid short tags and/or asp style tags.

2. always make code clean and neat.

3. Always comment code well.

 

As far as sessions specifically I advise you to use php's basic built in session handling until you are very advanced because there can be a lot of security issues with custom session handling if you are not in full control of what you are doing.

[ignace]

Which are those basic rules you stick to?

[Ninjakreborn]

Me personally, those were all based on opinion.

I stick to all of those when I program.  It is especially helpful to me when I am working with

other developers and I know someone else is goign to look throug my code.  As for comments it'll help

you later when you come back to your code and need to make changes.

[igor berger]

You may want to look at Zend for PHP4 but for PHP5 it get techincal.

 

The PHP4 Zend custom sessions are very easy to use.

 

http://www.zend.com/zend/spotlight/code-gallery-wade8.php?article=code-gallery-wade8&kind=sl&id=4791&open=1&anc=0&view=1