Best Practices

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Dealing With Nulls

• Null properties
• Null return types
• Null parameters

Software Design

• Dependency injection
• Repositories without ORMs
• MVC without frameworks (coming soon)
• Working with exceptions (coming soon)
• Onion architecture (coming soon)

Additional Resources

• 76-minute presentation "Effortless Software Development" at PHP Russia 2020.
• Short video: SOLID Principles Part 1: Single Responsibility
• Short video: Interfaces and Value Objects
• Short video: Flexible Symfony 4 Services. Although this is specific to one framework, most of the advice in this video applies everywhere. The only difference is the configuration for your Dependency Injection Container.
• Blog post: Why Objects Over Arrays?
• Blog post: Null Hell and How to Get Out of It
• Blog post: Organizing Miscellaneous Utility Functions
• Article: How to speed up your MySQL queries 300 times

Consulting Services

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