What PHP-FIG means to Drupal

An account of PHP history and renaissance

— Hussain Abbas / @hussainweb

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History

My PHP story

Open Source?

• My own components.
• Where to share code?
• Didn't bother.

Frameworks? CMS?

Move on...

Drupal

Code I could get onboard with

Hooks? Hmmm...

Drupalism

PHP 5

Better object oriented programming support

PHP 5.3

• Introduced namespaces.
• Better code organization.

From NIH to PIE

PHP Renaissance

PHP-FIG

PHP Standard Recommendations

• PSR-4, PSR-0
• PSR-3
• PSR-7
• Other PSR's
• Future PSR's

Autoloading

PSR-0

File: .../lib/Drupal/book/BookManager.php

                namespace Drupal\book;

                class BookManager {
                ...
                }
            

Shift to PSR-4

PSR-3

Benefits

Collaborate

• Any logger implementing PSR-3
• Any HTTP client implementing PSR-7

Reuse

• Symfony, Zend, Doctrine, Twig, and other components.
• Stack Builders to add functionality as middlewares.

Maintain less code

Focus on what makes Drupal "Drupal"

The sites that you build have

• Clean code
• Maintainable code
• Testable code

Thank you!

• @hussainweb
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