Making extensions distribution-ready
In this chapter, you learned how to create various types of Yii extensions. Now we'll talk about how to share your results with people and why it's important.
Getting ready
Let's form a checklist for a good extension first. A good programming product should follow these points:
- Good coding style
- People should be able to find it
- A consistent, easy to read, and easy to use API
- Good documentation
- Extension should apply to the most common use cases
- Should be maintained
- Well-tested code, ideally with unit tests
- You need to provide support for it
Of course, having all these requires a lot of work, but these are necessary to create a good product.
How to do it…
- Every modern PHP product must follow the PSR4 standards of autoloading ...
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