On Wednesday, August 12th, we had a meeting of the DC PHP Developer’s Group. Keith Casey of Blue Parabola led a code review of a member-submitted sample. The review was informative, educational, and helpful. With the permission of that member, I’ve decided to write a series on the tools for reviewing code and re-factoring it.
The code sample (included below) isn’t perfect. It needs work, and we’ll be working on it over the next few articles. Along the way, we’ll talk about strategies for identifying weaknesses, candidates for refactoring, and methods for writing better code before you get to the review stage. We’ll also refactor this into something more usable, and end up with a finished product that’s better than when we started.
The knowledge gained is based off the DC PHP Developer’s Group, as well as many notes that I put together. The refactoring process requires a lot of thought, and so this series will contain six more entries, starting with the first one on Monday. But before we begin, here’s the code sample we’ll be working with:
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Saturday, August 15th, 2009 @ 7:00 am |
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Categories: Best Practices, PHP 5
Tags: refactoring, PHP 5, Peer Review, code review
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