Building Maintainable PHP Applications: Value Objects
Learn about value objects, why they are useful and why it's better to use them over primitive values.
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Building Maintainable PHP Applications: Data Transfer Objects
Learn about data transfer objects, why they are useful and why it's better to use them over arrays.
Building Maintainable PHP Applications: Planning
Learn about the different approaches of figuring out the business processes and what needs to be done before writing any code or doing anything technical.
Building Maintainable PHP Applications: Thinking Data vs Thinking Business Processes
Learn about the differences between thinking in terms of data (CRUD) vs thinking in terms of business processes (behaviour) and how it affects code maintainability.
Building Maintainable PHP Applications: Framework Decoupling vs Framework Coupling
Learn about the differences between framework coupling and framework decoupling and how they affect the maintainability of the code.
Building Maintainable PHP Applications: Accidental vs Essential Complexity
Learn about the differences between accidental and essential complexity, how to reduce the accidental complexity and deal with the essential complexity when building software products.
Building Maintainable PHP Applications: Over-engineering vs under-engineering
Everyone talks about over-engineering but people rarely talk about under-engineering. Learn about the differences and how they depend on the context you are in.
Building Maintainable PHP Applications: Context
Learn about what's context, why it matters when building software and why it all depends on the context you are in.
Building Maintainable PHP Applications: Introduction
Introduction to the Building Maintainable PHP Applications series of articles which covers many different topics that will be helpful for maintaining complex codebases for the long run.
8 Code Quality Tools To Use In Your Long-Term PHP Applications
Long-term projects are hard to maintain and deal with but these code quality tools can help you out if you use them consistently.