Monday, 30 April 2007

Defensive Programming in PHP

Cal Evans at the Zend Developer Zone tells you about Manual Lemos and his post on eight rules he uses for defensive programming in PHPClasses newsletter.

Cal says, Manual goes on to describe a problem he had, the issues he faced with PHPClass’ newsletter delivery system and eight rules he uses to minimize embarrassing programming errors.

The article in PHPClasses describes software development practices that have been used to prevent problems that can break Web sites. It also contains a message that explains recent changes that were made to the site newsletter user options to reduce the site bandwidth usage to keep the hosting costs on budget.