Developer-Guide/standards/php.md

Php

The php code needs to be php 7 compliant. No php 7 deprecated or removed elements, functions or practices are allowed (e.g. short open tag). Please use the phpcs.xml and phpmd.xml configurations for PHP Code Sniffer and PHP Mess Detector provided with the project to identify most of the basic code standards.

Php Tags

PHP code MUST use the long <?php ?> tags or the short-echo <?= ?> tags; it MUST NOT use the other tag variations.

Character Encoding

PHP code MUST use only UTF-8 without BOM

Line Ending

Lines MUST end with \n (LF) and MUST NOT have a whitespace at the end.

File Ending

Files must end with a new line element \n.

Namespace and Class Names

Namespaces and classes MUST follow an "autoloading" PSR: [PSR-0, PSR-4].

This means each class is in a file by itself, and is in a namespace of at least one level: a top-level vendor name.

Class names MUST be declared in StudlyCaps.

Default Functions

Function calls to php internal function calls must use the root namespace \:

\substr(...);
\is_bool(...);
\file_get_contents(...);
....

Php in html

Php code embedded into template files SHOULD use the alternative syntax for control structures in order to improve the readability:

<?php if ($a === 5) : ?>
    <p>This is html</p>
<?php endif; ?>

Echo

when echoing multiple components, don't concat them but use ,.

echo 'Hello' , 'World';

If

Elseif

Use elseif where possible instead of else if.

Namespace

Namespaces must be surrounded with new line elements.

Class Constants

Class constants MUST have a access modifier

public CONST_NAME = ...;

Preferred Functions

file_exists

Instead of using \file_exists() the functions \is_dir() or \is_file() should be used.

Deprecated functions and variables

The following functions and (super-) global variables MUST NOT be used.

• extract()
• parse_str()
• int_set()
• putenv()
• eval()
• assert()
• system()
• shell_exec()
• create_function()
• call_user_func_array()
• call_user_func()
• url_exec()
• passthru()
• Java()
• COM()
• event_new()
• dotnet_load()
• runkit_function_rename()
• pcntl_signal()
• pcntl_alarm()
• register_tick_function()
• dl()
• pfsockopen()
• fsockopen()
• posix_mkfifo()
• posix_getlogin()
• posix_ttyname()
• posix_kill()
• posix_mkfifo()
• posix_setpgid()
• posix_setsid()
• posix_setuid()

The following functions and (super-) global variables MAY only be used in the phpOMS Framework in special cases.

• $_GET
• $_POST
• $_PUT
• $_DELETE
• $_SERVER
• header()
• mail()
• phpinfo()
• getenv()
• get_current_user()
• proc_get_status()
• get_cfg_var()
• disk_free_space()
• disk_total_space()
• diskfreespace()
• getcwd()
• getlastmo()
• getmygid()
• getmyinode()
• getmypid()
• getmyuid()
• proc_nice()
• proc_terminate()
• proc_close()
• pfsockopen()
• fsockopen()
• apache_child_terminate()
• posix_kill()
• posix_mkfifo()
• posix_setpgid()
• posix_setsid()
• posix_setuid()
• ftp_get()
• ftp_nb_get()
• register_shutdown_function()
• chown()
• chdir()
• chmod()
• chgrp()
• symlink()
• flock()
• socket_create()
• socket_connect()