Tomas Vortuba has continued his series covering the changes in the Easy Coding Standard for Symfony-based applications and the changes in version 4. In this new article he covers the updates around line breaks and legacy fixes.

Legacy code prevention, lines automated and clear naming of classes in huge projects. That all is coming to Coding Standard 4 (still in alpha).

Are you curious what work will now these 4 news fixers handle for you? Look inside.

He then goes through each of the changes and includes both the configuration changes to use it and what code changes it will make:

• Let Coding Standard handle Line Length for You
• Choose Line Length to Match Your Display
• Keep Legacy Far Away with New ForbiddenStaticFunctionSniff
• Prevent & references with ForbiddenStaticFunctionSniff
• Clear Child Class Naming Once and For All with ClassNameSuffixByParentFixer

You can find out more about the standard in this project on GitHub.

From the ThinkingPHP blog today, Felix Geisendorfer has shared some of his experience to help those CakePHP users out there that are looking at doing more templating to their applications than just the normal index changes.

One of the things I don't see getting to much coverage is how to create good templates when working with CakePHP. Since those are written in plain PHP, this does not apply to CakePHP only. So I'm sure many people have already developed their own style that they are comfortable with and I don't ask for them to change it. However, maybe some people new to the framework / language can benifit by taking a look at the one I'm using.

He covers a few different topics:

PHP tags
• Conditions
• Loops
• the linebreak issue
• avoiding multi-line statements
• Creating Zebra striped table rows

The code included on some of the points (not the multi-line or the PHP tags items) is simple and is summed up in less than six lines.

From the ThinkingPHP blog today, Felix Geisendorfer has shared some of his experience to help those CakePHP users out there that are looking at doing more templating to their applications than just the normal index changes.

One of the things I don't see getting to much coverage is how to create good templates when working with CakePHP. Since those are written in plain PHP, this does not apply to CakePHP only. So I'm sure many people have already developed their own style that they are comfortable with and I don't ask for them to change it. However, maybe some people new to the framework / language can benifit by taking a look at the one I'm using.

He covers a few different topics:

PHP tags
• Conditions
• Loops
• the linebreak issue
• avoiding multi-line statements
• Creating Zebra striped table rows

The code included on some of the points (not the multi-line or the PHP tags items) is simple and is summed up in less than six lines.