JV’s Power Tips for PHP (1)

JV’s Power Tips for PHP (1) - Conclusion
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During the course of this article, amongst other things, we have explored why it is important to abstract programming logic from layout and display. Here are the main tips broken down into bullet points:

• Try not to combine PHP logic and static HTML in the same place.
• Take note of how useful the print <<<END statement is
• Put your static HTML into PHP templates to make it very easy to merge dynamic variables into it
• Gather dynamic variables (at the beginning of your script) and then inject them into templates (at the end of your script)
• Make your own function such as out() and use_template() to help you
• Use define() to make short cut aliases for use with functions like out()
• Structure your code into directories such as functions and templates
• Refine a function like use_template() into something more useful like get_template()
• Use a single global object such as $output to store your dynamic output into

When I started writing this article I expected to cover a lot more ground. I haven’t even got to the reason why I mentioned turkeys. That will just have to wait until my next ‘power’ tips article. Power tips indeed. I have a website that offers amongst other things free scripts that can help to make a PHP programmers life just that little bit easier.

Anyway, thanks for your time and perhaps I’ll see you in the next instalment of JV’s Power Tips for PHP (borrowed from the name ‘Kai’s power tools for Photoshop’).

In the mean time I’m off to think about Turkeys...

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