Detecting dead code in PHP PHP applications are under constant evolution. The code tents to grow bigger, more complex, and finally, to collect dust : this also know as dead code. Dead code is actual code that is not being used in production, even if the code is deployed. It is important to remove dead code. Missing […]
It is difficult to avoid the world cup yesterday. Since I’m not a football fan, but rather a PHP fan, I checked which technologies are in use for the national team. I got the list of the 32 national team, then checked they website. The great news is : PHP is a clear winner. Out of […]
The audit report contains several parts : the main part is the diagnostic, and the secondary part is the appinfo. Let’s review them. The diagnostic The diagnostic collect all information in the code that needs to be reviewed, and probably fixed. The diagnostic has 3 parts : the dashboard, the full list and the detailed report. The […]
Defining a PHP method is quite standard : a function only requires a name and arguments. The arguments are its signature, just like this : function x($arg1, $arg2, $arg3) {} Arguments may, among other things, have default value. When this is the case, the arguments has to be at the end of the signature. Thus, function goodSignature($arg1, […]