Mastering PHP Design Patterns

Summary

In this chapter we covered some fundamental anti-patterns for you to avoid; some were architectural, some were PHP-related, and others were at the management layer.

Fundamentally, anti-patterns result in technical debt. By technical debt, we are talking about code that is so hard to extend that it becomes harder to make changes to later on.

Here's a list of things I want you to do to fix this:

• Plan before you start coding
• Make comments, and add a comment where the purpose of your code isn't immediately apparent
• Make sure your code has structure
• Try to avoid putting too much code in one method
• Use DocBlocking
• Use common sense approaches to PHP

In this chapter, we have learned some common design issues that can lead to severe problems; these principles ...