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[NOISE] PHP, a language belittled by many
yet still used by millions of

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websites around the world to power about
80% of the internet.

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How does it manage this?

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Well, on one hand, it's very, very easy to
knock out really simple websites.

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On the other hand, these sites can be
insecure or have terrible code quality.

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To keep the benefits of PHP's ease of use,
but

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improve our code quality, we can focus on
standards and best practices.

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My name's Phil Sturgeon and I've been
using PHP for over a decade,

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I've been involved with some popular open
source projects like CodeIgniter,

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FuelPHP and Piracy MS.

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I've released code that is being used by
Apple, Google, Facebook and

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the US government, all written in PHP.

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Over the years I've seen my PHP code go
from terrible to reasonable following

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an awful amount of trial and error and a
massive amount of research.

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These days PHP has a lot more high quality
resources out there and

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we will look through a few of those to
help us write better PHP.

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There are also some standards created by
various bodies around the internet,

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like the IETF, who work on things like the
HTTP spec, and W3C,

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who are responsible for HTML.

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Generally, it's a group of people who
[SOUND] theoretically know a thing or

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two, who come together to hash out
standards which everyone can then follow.

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Best practices and general advice is
passed on from developer to developer to

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help people avoid common problems, things
like interacting with data stores,

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caching, security, designing how you write
your code, and anything else, really.

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Basically, in this video, we can help you
skip a few months or

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years of getting things wrong with PHP, so
you can get on with doing things right,

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like making awesome software.