PHP: The “Right” Way

Table of Contents
Windows Setup
Mac Setup
Common Directory structure
Getting Started
	Use the Current Stable Version (8.1)
	Built-in web server
	Data Filtering
	Web Application Security
	Error Reporting
	Configuration Files
	Register Globals
Security
	Password Hashing
	Complementary Testing Tools
	Test Driven Development
Testing
	Behavior Driven Development
	Virtual or Dedicated Servers
	Shared Servers
Servers and Deployment
	Platform as a Service (PaaS)
	Building and Deploying your Application
	Docker
	Vagrant
Virtualization
Caching
	Object Caching
	Opcode Cache
	PHPDoc
Documenting your Code
	Books
	People to Follow
	Other Useful Resources
	Video Tutorials
	Components
	PHP PaaS Providers
Resources
	Frameworks
	From the Source
Community
	PHP Conferences
	PHP User Groups
	ElePHPants
Code Style Guide
Language Highlights
	Xdebug
	Command Line Interface
	Standard PHP Library
	Programming Paradigms
	Namespaces
	PEAR
	Composer and Packagist
Dependency Management
	Working with UTF-8
Coding Practices
	The Basics
	Design Patterns
	Internationalization (i18n) and Localization (l10n)
	Common ways to implement
	Gettext
	Date and Time
	Complex Problem
Dependency Injection
	Containers
	Basic Concept
	Further Reading
	Interacting with Databases
	MySQL Extension
	PDO Extension
	Abstraction Layers
Databases
	Further Reading
	Benefits
	Compiled Templates
	Plain PHP Templates
Templating
Errors and Exceptions
	Errors
	Exceptions