What PHP-FIG means to Drupal

An account of PHP history and renaissance

— Hussain Abbas / @hussainweb

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History

My PHP story

Open Source?

  • My own components.
  • Where to share code?
  • Didn't bother.

Frameworks? CMS?

Move on...

Drupal

Code I could get onboard with

Hooks? Hmmm...

Drupalism

PHP 5

Better object oriented programming support

PHP 5.3

  • Introduced namespaces.
  • Better code organization.

From NIH to PIE

PHP Renaissance

PHP-FIG

PHP Standard Recommendations

  • PSR-4, PSR-0
  • PSR-3
  • PSR-7
  • Other PSR's
  • Future PSR's

Autoloading

PSR-0

File: .../lib/Drupal/book/BookManager.php


                namespace Drupal\book;

                class BookManager {
                ...
                }

Shift to PSR-4

PSR-3

Benefits

Collaborate

  • Any logger implementing PSR-3
  • Any HTTP client implementing PSR-7

Reuse

  • Symfony, Zend, Doctrine, Twig, and other components.
  • Stack Builders to add functionality as middlewares.

Maintain less code

Focus on what makes Drupal "Drupal"

The sites that you build have

  • Clean code
  • Maintainable code
  • Testable code

Thank you!