Save The Kittens! PHP Must Follows!
There’s an old adage – dating back to the 1700s – which, in English, says: “A kitten dies each time a PHP programmer doesn’t follow best practices.” Okay, not really; but just go with it!
Getting started in PHP can be a daunting experience. With that in mind, these 20 tips will teach you how to follow best practices, and save lives…kitty lives.
0. Program as Often as You Possibly Can
Programming often and with purpose will make the lessons you learn stick.
Did you study a foreign language in school? Studied all the parts of speech, learned the verbs and how to conjugate them, followed along as your teacher said common phrases?
How much of that language do you still speak?
If you’re answer is, “none,” I’m willing to bet it’s due to the fact that you never actually used the language — you only studied it. But if you can still hold up a conversation, it’s likely because you actually spent some time speaking that language outside of the learning environment. Perhaps you spent a year abroad, or worked a job where a second language was necessary?
Whatever the reason, you retained it because you used it in real-life situations and put it into a personal context that is much easier to recall later.
PHP is a foreign language, just like Spanish or French. In order to become comfortable with it, you need to use it outside of the classroom setting. Tutorials and sample projects are great for teaching the fundamentals, but unless you’re applying those concepts to your own projects, it will be much more difficult to apply those fundamentals in context and burn them into your memory.
So, don’t worry that you “don’t know enough” to build a project. When you choose your project, you have a valid reason to research and implement a concept. Programming often and with purpose will make the lessons you learn stick.
BRB: Finals
I have finals and term papers all due next week, so I will not be posting much until that is all over. But once they are, I will be sure to most more frequently than I am now. But I would like suggestions on what to write about, so leave them below! 
A Revival
Well, it really has been ages since I even looked at this blog, but I promise, with me being in college now, I have A LOT more free time to spend on this blog. I will be updating it at least twice a week with a new tutorial or so I hope, and I would really appreciate any feedback you guys have. Thanks a lot.
Back, once again!
Well, dear readers, I have not been active on this blog for quite some time. I have noticed that there are alot of commenters requesting support. I will be posting all new tutorials that are soon to come. I will update the user system script, and also I will be taking suggestions for new tutorials. Just comment on this post and I will get those tutorials up ASAP. Thanks!
Long lost posts…
Hello again, as you may know, I have not been updating this site for a long time now. The truth is, I just have not had any time to create tutorials. I just got back from a long and needed vacation, and will be heading to school in a few weeks. I hope that I can still post when I get the chance. As for now, I am working on the membership tutorial bugs that you all have been posting about, and would like to update that asap. Any tutorials that you would like to see here, post a comment in this thread.
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