Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal are not good examples of "good" PHP code. They work, and are used extensively, but experienced developers who care about code quali

Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal are not good examples of "good" PHP code. They work, and are used extensively, but experienced developers who care about code quality blow a gasket when they look at the source code. To do proper PHP development you should have a local VM. I created something to help in that regard[0]. It's been fairly well received. There's also websites like PHP The Right Way [1] that act like a collection of best practices. If you're not using Composer[2] you should start doing so. I wish Javascript had a package manager as robust and useful as Composer (I know of Bower, but imo it's not nearly as good!). PHP Developer[3] is a source of good daily blog posts. The ones I read on a regular basis are ircmaxell [4], fabpot[5], lornajane[6], philsturgeon[7], richardmiller[8], and phparch[9]. I also sometimes write some things[10]. [0] https://puphpet.com https://puphpet.com [1] http://phptherightway.com http://phptherightway.com [2] http://getcomposer.org http://getcomposer.org [3] http://phpdeveloper.org http://phpdeveloper.org [4] http://blog.ircmaxell.com http://blog.ircmaxell.com [5] http://fabien.potencier.org http://fabien.potencier.org [6] http://lornajane.net http://lornajane.net [7] http://philsturgeon.co.uk/blog http://philsturgeon.co.uk/blog [8] http://richardmiller.co.uk http://richardmiller.co.uk [9] http://phparch.com http://phparch.com [10] https://jtreminio.com https://jtreminio.com