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CodeSniffer – The PHP Coding Standards Tool
A couple of years ago I implemented a coding standards guide for PHP development at TMW, as I'd noticed that they only had a document that was focused on .Net and Windows. The guide outlined mostly common sense practices, such as avoiding certain unsafe language functions, and how to best indent and document your code. Just over a year ago I made this document public on the TMW GitHub account, and…
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Using XML as a source document for other formats
At TMW I produced a PHP coding standards document, as there were only such documents available for .Net and the front-end coding technologies. Initially, this was only available on the internal wiki, but there was a need to then add it to the TMW Tech Blog, which used Markdown format. Not wanting to maintain two sets of documentation, and noticing a possible need for other formats in the future, I…
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Using XSL to convert XML to SQL
The new Energizer Europe website has recently launched, and it has certainly been one of the biggest and complicated sites I've ever worked on. Part of this complexity came from the fact that it was to launch across more than 30 regions of Europe and in 10 languages. Now, there are many brilliant people out there who are fluently multi-lingual and can quite easily read and interpret website copy coming…
