[Webdev] Learning PHP

[Philip Reynolds]

Russell Matbouli's [russell at futureless.org] 33 lines of wisdom included:
> Some good advice I once received - if your subroutines are more than
> about 10 lines, they're too long. Short amounts of code are much easier
> to read. Also, try to remove as many variables as is possible. It makes
> it easier to read too. If you can read the code, you're more likely to
> understand it and remember what you were thinking when you wrote it :)
> Don't be afraid to create lots of packages/modules/classes with not a
> lot in them if it helps to keep things separate and logical to you.

This advice stems from Objected Orientated Software Metrics. One of
the metrics is of course size, of lines of code per functions.

It differs from language to language, obviously. You couldn't apply
the same metric to lines of code in a function in C++ that you would
in PERL or PHP.

One stigma, I've noticed with PHP programmers, whether it's through
lack of experience, is nearly NO code re-use at all. 

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