Update:Archive/2.0/Developers/Best Practices: Difference between revisions

Update:Archive/2.0/Developers/Best Practices (view source)

808 bytes added , 21 January 2005

3,035

edits

@@ Line 19: / Line 19: @@
 == Coding Methods ==
+=== Do ===
+* Create functions for anything you will do more than once.
+* Create comment blocks before functinos in [phpDoc http://manual.phpdoc.org/HTMLframesConverter/default/] format.
+* Create meaningful to-the-point inline comments when necessary.
+* Clean and validate all inputs to prevent SQL injection or malignant HTML.
+* Use meaningful variable and function names.
+=== Don't ===
+* Create functions that do not return anything and echo PHP.
+* Use variable or function names that are ambiguous (like $var or validate()).
+* Create unnecessary functions.
+* Use <? ?> to designate a PHP block.
+* Use $array[foo] or $array["foo"] unless it is appropriate (constant or a variable catted with a string).
+* Loop MySQL queries.
+* Use GET variables in MySQL queries without cleaning them.
+* Pass SID via GET.