http://laughingmeme.org/2003/08/05/a-few-tips-for-writing-useful-libraries-in-php/ Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:18:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://laughingmeme.org/2003/08/05/a-few-tips-for-writing-useful-libraries-in-php/comment-page-1/#comment-45076 I wish I was a better programmer... @ a.Tidwell blog Wed, 16 May 2007 14:53:54 +0000 http://lm.quxx.info/?p=547#comment-45076 <p>[...] 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 I’m returning formatted code (with html markup) - why the hell haven’t I split it into multiple functions yet? [...]</p> [...] 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 I’m returning formatted code (with html markup) – why the hell haven’t I split it into multiple functions yet? [...]

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