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    <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 10:14:19 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Voices of the ElePHPant Podcast: Interview with Josh Lockhart]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>
The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has released their latest interview with a PHP community member - <a href="http://voicesoftheelephpant.com/2012/08/07/interview-with-josh-lockhart/">Josh Lockhart</a>, creator of the <a href="http://phpthreightway.com">PHP - the Right Way</a> project.
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<i>Cal</i>'s three questions center around his involvement in this project:
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<li>Why did you start "PHP - The Right Way"?
<li>What makes "PHP - The Right Way" different from other beginner PHP resources out there?
<li>Who can contribute to "PHP - The Right Way"?
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You can listen to this latest episode either through the <a href="http://voicesoftheelephpant.com/2012/08/07/interview-with-josh-lockhart/">in-page player</a>, by <a href="http://voices.of.the.elephpant.s3.amazonaws.com/vote_064.mp3">download the mp3</a> or <a href="http://voicesoftheelephpant.com/feed/podcast/">subscribe to their feed</a>.
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 09:47:10 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Community News: PHP, The Right Way Site Launches]]></title>
      <guid>http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/18205</guid>
      <link>http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/18205</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>
In response to some of the recent talk about the quality of PHP and some of the <a href="http://blog.ircmaxell.com/2012/07/true-problem-with-php.html">recent suggestions</a> about the right and wrong ways to write PHP, the <a href="http://www.phptherightway.com/">PHP The Right Way</a> site has been lunched.
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<blockquote>
There's a lot of bad information on the Web (I'm looking at you, W3Schools) that leads new PHP users astray, propagating bad practices and bad code. This must stop. PHP: The Right Way is an easy-to-read, quick reference for PHP best practices, accepted coding standards, and links to authoritative tutorials around the Web. It is important to understand there is no canonical way to use PHP. That's the beauty of it. This website introduces new PHP developers to best practices, available options, and good information.
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The site has some "getting started" tips for working with PHP 5.4, links to some of the current PSR standards and gets into some of the best practices for things like proper OOP structure, namespacing and using the SPL. There's also hints on using <a href="http://getcomposer.org">Composer</a> for package management, working with databases and some basic parts on security and testing.
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Additionally, the site is also <a href="https://github.com/codeguy/php-the-right-way">an open source project</a> so you can contribute your own content (it'll have to be approved before merging) on topics you might not see or want to improve.
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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 08:12:34 -0500</pubDate>
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