Robin Chalas chalasr

Procedural PHP Manifesto

We are web site developers (a.k.a. webmasters) and we just want to get stuff done. We don't need Object Orientation and we don't need Design Patters and other boring and not easy to learn and understand stuff to get in our way to get our sites up and running.

And that's why our values are:

Procedural Code over Object Orientation

No one actually needs OO to develop web applications
Classes with only static functions are ok, since it's just a way to keep functions in one place. And is still procedural

Explicitly load what you need over autoloaders

a simple git branching model (written in 2013)

This is a very simple git workflow. It (and variants) is in use by many people. I settled on it after using it very effectively at Athena. GitHub does something similar; Zach Holman mentioned it in this talk.

Update: Woah, thanks for all the attention. Didn't expect this simple rant to get popular.

	<?php

	namespace Application\Sonata\UserBundle\Entity;

	use Sonata\UserBundle\Entity\BaseUser as BaseUser;
	//use FOS\UserBundle\Model\User as BaseUser;
	//use Doctrine\Common\Collections\Collection;
	use Gedmo\Mapping\Annotation as Gedmo;
	use Symfony\Bridge\Doctrine\Validator\Constraints\UniqueEntity;

	#!/bin/sh

	# Setup encrypted disk image
	# For Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

	CRYPTFS_ROOT=/cryptfs

	apt-get update
	apt-get -y upgrade
	apt-get -y install cryptsetup

	<?php

	public function process(ContainerBuilder $container)
	{
	$factory = $container->findDefinition('app.doctrine.repository.factory');

	$repositories = [];
	foreach ($container->findTaggedServiceIds('app.repository') as $id => $params) {
	foreach ($params as $param) {
	$repositories[$param['class']] = $id;

	<?php
	/**
	* @file
	* gvdump.php
	*
	* @author: Frédéric G. MARAND <[email protected]>
	*
	* @copyright (c) 2014 Ouest Systèmes Informatiques (OSInet).
	*
	* @license MIT

	<?php

	namespace Acme\DemoBundle\Repository;

	use Acme\DemoBundle\Dependency;
	use Doctrine\ORM\EntityRepository;

	/**
	* Get this repository directly from the container: it will set the $dependency attribute.
	* If you get it using Doctrine's "getRepository()", don't forget to call setDependency().

	<?php

	namespace Mocks;

	use Doctrine\DBAL\Driver\Statement;

	/**
	* Doctrine DBAL Statement implementing \Iterator.
	*
	* This class has been created because of a bug in PHPUnit Mock Objects.

	<?php

	$tokenGenerator = $this->getContainer()->get('fos_user.util.token_generator');
	$password = substr($tokenGenerator->generateToken(), 0, 8); // 8 chars

	<?php

	class LayoutExtension extends \Twig_Extension
	{
	/**
	* {@inheritdoc}
	*/
	public function getName()
	{
	return 'yolo';