PHP Standard recommendations

Overview

Rather then reinventing the wheel, we have taken the commonly discussed and adopted PHP standard recommendations (PSR), maintained by the PHP Framework Interoperability Group (PHP-FIG), and customised them for our purposes and toolchains.

As clearly stated by the PHP-FIG, their standardisation efforts target a closed set of PHP projects:

Our main audience is each other, but we’re very aware that the rest of the PHP community is watching. If other folks want to adopt what we’re doing they are welcome to do so, but that is not the aim.

While we adhere to the majority of the commonalities they have standardised, some are considered -- for our purposes, non practical or in violation of our quality assurance and code base, as established, and evolved, over almost four decades, and being used in many different programming languages. Hence the purpose of this repository to amend their works accordingly.

This is made available primarily for our staff, partners, and other contributors on public or private projects we manage. As such it is a reference and not really open to debat. Nonetheless, we are open to discuss some standards which seem to go against so-called industry standards and best practices -- for instance the archaic 80 columns rule. Don't fall in the trap of simply stating your opinion; discussion is about experience, facts, and figures. We will respond to such discussions on a best effort basis.

Recommendations

ID	Title	FIG status	ISLE status
0	Autoloading Standard	Deprecated	Cf. PSR4
1	Basic Coding Standard	Accepted	Proof reading
2	Coding Style Guide	Deprecated	n/a
3	Logger Interface	Accepted	Proof reading
4	Autoloading Standard	Accepted	Proof reading
5	PHPDoc Standard	Draft	Proof reading
6	Caching Interface	Accepted	Proof reading
7	HTTP Message Interface	Accepted	Proof reading
8	Huggable Interface	Abandoned	n/a
9	Security Advisories	Abandoned	n/a
10	Security Reporting Process	Abandoned	n/a
11	Container Interface	Accepted	Proof reading
12	Extended Coding Style Guide	Accepted	Proof reading
13	Hypermedia Links	Accepted	Proof reading
14	Event Dispatcher	Accepted	Proof reading
15	HTTP Handlers	Accepted	Proof reading
16	Simple Cache	Accepted	Proof reading
17	HTTP Factories	Accepted	Proof reading
18	HTTP Client	Accepted	Proof reading
19	PHPDoc tags	Draft	Proof reading
20	Clock	Draft	Proof reading