Comment Where are the best practices for each language? (Score 2, Insightful) 801
I've been getting into Ruby on Rails recently, and am most excited by how Rails makes it very clear what the "best practices" for organizing and building your application is.
I have long despaired of learning that same information for PHP (with which I have much more experience). I've not yet found a book or other documentation that provides a concrete approach. And looking at existing large-scale projects, e.g., WordPress and others, reveal a myriad of different philosophies. It leaves developers basically trying different things out on different projects, and picking up their own favorite best practices as they go along.
While it's great that the languages are so flexible, well, sometimes it's nice to be guided to a known solid approach. It leads to consistency among and across many developers and time. This makes it easier for new developers to join or take over a project, or even for the original developer to do maintenance on components which were written long ago.
So, where are the recommended approaches for organizing and constructing large-scale applications for PHP (and Python, etc.)?
I have long despaired of learning that same information for PHP (with which I have much more experience). I've not yet found a book or other documentation that provides a concrete approach. And looking at existing large-scale projects, e.g., WordPress and others, reveal a myriad of different philosophies. It leaves developers basically trying different things out on different projects, and picking up their own favorite best practices as they go along.
While it's great that the languages are so flexible, well, sometimes it's nice to be guided to a known solid approach. It leads to consistency among and across many developers and time. This makes it easier for new developers to join or take over a project, or even for the original developer to do maintenance on components which were written long ago.
So, where are the recommended approaches for organizing and constructing large-scale applications for PHP (and Python, etc.)?
