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Ask HN: Examples of good PHP code (entire projects) where can I find them?

9 points by omilu 12y ago

It's easy to find great examples of C (Redis, Git), but not easy to find good PHP. Anyone know where to look to find good PHP code worthy of study?

leftnode 12y ago
May start here: https://github.com/search?l=PHP&o=desc&q=php&s=stars&type=Repositories&utf8=%E2%9C%93 https://github.com/search?l=PHP&o=desc&q=php&s=stars&type=Re... and see what you find. Particularly, the newer PHP frameworks, Guzzle, Composer, and PHPUnit are good to look at.
ainiriand 12y ago
You can look at the source of the symfony httpfoundation bundle, it is the best php code in my opinion.
fiedzia 12y ago
/dev/null
dubin 12y ago
Have heard great things about CodeIgniter's source: https://github.com/bcit-ci/CodeIgniter https://github.com/bcit-ci/CodeIgniter
mahadazad 12y ago
Checkout Zend Framework 2 source code.
aegabriel 12y ago
Laravel is very well written and has some really cool stuff going on, particularily the IOC container. https://github.com/laravel/laravel https://github.com/laravel/laravel
hashtag 12y ago
I find it a bit funny that all the recommendations here are of php frameworks and none that are projects built in php outside of that
- krapp 12y ago
  Why? Any 'good' web project in any other language also involves a framework, does it not? Ruby has Rails, Python has Django, etc. It should be no surprise that structured and organized PHP is better than raw PHP, and that examples of well written PHP would probably involve a framework. Although I suppose it could be argued that since PHP is intended for the web, it shouldn't need a framework, and it should support more of the features a framework provides out of the box than it does. Nevertheless, the pattern of a framework is as useful in PHP for the same reasons as it is elsewhere, so I don't believe it says anything negative about the language per se.
  - hashtag 12y ago
    You're missing my point. I'm not the Op but had I been the one asking the question, I would love to see actual projects that have clean php code written (even if they were using a framework), rather than refer to how a framework itself is written.
nikkob 12y ago
Try checking these out: http://thephpleague.com/ http://thephpleague.com/ They are very high-quality libraries.
cafard 12y ago
Within the last year, I think, somebody posted a link on HN to early Facebook code. I hardly glanced at it, but I remember that it looked well-structured and perhaps well-commented.
ninjaplease 12y ago
No such thing. Use a real language.
chrisjlee84 12y ago
There are several Frameworks that feature the most well written code out there. Symfony is one of them and has some of the best PHP code out there: https://github.com/symfony/symfony/ https://github.com/symfony/symfony/ As well as Aura: https://github.com/auraphp https://github.com/auraphp And Laravel: https://github.com/laravel/laravel https://github.com/laravel/laravel
adidash 12y ago
wordpress.org
omilu 12y ago
found this on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/a9mio/lets_compile_a_list_of_really_good_oo_php_5_code/ http://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/a9mio/lets_compile_a_li...

9 points by omilu 12y ago

It's easy to find great examples of C (Redis, Git), but not easy to find good PHP. Anyone know where to look to find good PHP code worthy of study?

leftnode 12y ago

May start here: https://github.com/search?l=PHP&o=desc&q=php&s=stars&type=Repositories&utf8=%E2%9C%93 https://github.com/search?l=PHP&o=desc&q=php&s=stars&type=Re... and see what you find. Particularly, the newer PHP frameworks, Guzzle, Composer, and PHPUnit are good to look at.

ainiriand 12y ago

You can look at the source of the symfony httpfoundation bundle, it is the best php code in my opinion.

fiedzia 12y ago

/dev/null

dubin 12y ago

Have heard great things about CodeIgniter's source: https://github.com/bcit-ci/CodeIgniter https://github.com/bcit-ci/CodeIgniter

mahadazad 12y ago

Checkout Zend Framework 2 source code.

aegabriel 12y ago

Laravel is very well written and has some really cool stuff going on, particularily the IOC container. https://github.com/laravel/laravel https://github.com/laravel/laravel

hashtag 12y ago

I find it a bit funny that all the recommendations here are of php frameworks and none that are projects built in php outside of that

krapp 12y ago
Why? Any 'good' web project in any other language also involves a framework, does it not? Ruby has Rails, Python has Django, etc. It should be no surprise that structured and organized PHP is better than raw PHP, and that examples of well written PHP would probably involve a framework. Although I suppose it could be argued that since PHP is intended for the web, it shouldn't need a framework, and it should support more of the features a framework provides out of the box than it does. Nevertheless, the pattern of a framework is as useful in PHP for the same reasons as it is elsewhere, so I don't believe it says anything negative about the language per se.
- hashtag 12y ago
  You're missing my point. I'm not the Op but had I been the one asking the question, I would love to see actual projects that have clean php code written (even if they were using a framework), rather than refer to how a framework itself is written.

nikkob 12y ago

Try checking these out: http://thephpleague.com/ http://thephpleague.com/ They are very high-quality libraries.

cafard 12y ago

Within the last year, I think, somebody posted a link on HN to early Facebook code. I hardly glanced at it, but I remember that it looked well-structured and perhaps well-commented.

ninjaplease 12y ago

No such thing. Use a real language.

chrisjlee84 12y ago

There are several Frameworks that feature the most well written code out there. Symfony is one of them and has some of the best PHP code out there: https://github.com/symfony/symfony/ https://github.com/symfony/symfony/ As well as Aura: https://github.com/auraphp https://github.com/auraphp And Laravel: https://github.com/laravel/laravel https://github.com/laravel/laravel

adidash 12y ago

wordpress.org

omilu 12y ago

found this on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/a9mio/lets_compile_a_list_of_really_good_oo_php_5_code/ http://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/a9mio/lets_compile_a_li...