Comments on: A Few Tips for Writing Useful Libraries in PHP

By: chrisnof

chrisnof — Fri, 28 May 2010 10:20:19 +0000

Nice article, But please, fix all those tags in your article, it makes it difficult to read..

By: michael

michael — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:47:04 +0000

Great! I’m trying to write my own libaraies , this article is a good summary!

By: Cesar Gonzalez

Cesar Gonzalez — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:28:13 +0000

Hey Kellan, thanks for your wonderful page of tips on writing PHP libraries! I’m working on my first one, and you’ve given me some good ideas on how to start and what to avoid.

By: I wish I was a better programmer... @ a.Tidwell blog

I wish I was a better programmer... @ a.Tidwell blog — Wed, 16 May 2007 14:53:54 +0000

[...] 4. PHP is not a language that people write libraries for This mostly resonated with a blog post I read over at LaughingMeme – in which he talked (ranted?) about poor libraries written in PHP. Many PHP programmers seem to ignore writing good reusable code – inserting formatting and other erroneous material in their returns from function calls – or even worse, echoing or printing the result instead of returning it. I am guilty of this in about 99% of the code I write. I realize now, especially when taking refactoring into account, that this is time wasted and poor design. Sure, for a first pass on a complex function, why not – but when things get so complex that Iâ€™m returning formatted code (with html markup) – why the hell havenâ€™t I split it into multiple functions yet? [...]