At Forest Edge, we enable quality woodland gardens for residents of the greater New Haven area. With our extensive education and practical expertise, we design and build software intensive systems to create sustainable, attractive woodland landscapes. With our applications, your landscape plans are innovative, creative, and high quality designs that can be built and maintained at a reasonable cost.
PHP Documentation Standards
I have found programming standards to be useful in the following ways: helps with clarity of thought, anticipates the needs of maintaining the code, and supports others who want to use the code. The WordPress community has developed standard for coding and documenting the programs.
The goal of the coding standard is to have a document that is easy to understand at a glance. A style of writing used consistently by multiple authors helps to achieve the goal. For the PHP coding standards, click here. The coding standards help the author to write code that is syntactically correct and more importantly, that is readable.
However coding standards need to be augmented with additional information. Documentation standards provides a means to create documentation from the source code. For the PHP documentation standards, click here. I am using Notepad++ and located a plugin to help with the documentation.
PHP Programming with jEdit
Initially, I thought the Eclipse IDE would provide an environment for PHP programming. A plugin is available for the work. However, as I searched the literature, I did not see others programming PHP with Eclipse. A range of editors were being used from command line text editors to sophisticated IDEs. I settled on using JEdit because of Melvin Walls’ PHP tutorial.
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