I've done one php/mysql project; it was an online wishlist for compiling links to different products that you would want and if people buy it for you they can mark it so that two people don't get the same thing. It worked, but the code was so bad! And then my server went down and the database got deleted and I hadn't written an install db script, so I'm not sure if I could even recover it. Maybe I will rewrite it since it was a pretty useful tool and my parents got me some neat gifts from it. I have another project that I really want to start, but I would like for the code to be written better for that one.
I am wondering if anyone can reccommend some php best practices. I have been reading some about it and it talks about things like database abstraction classes, etc. I have been really fascinated with the ideas of Tony Marston who developed the open-source Radicore framework (
www.radicore.org). I am considering using his framework, has anyone tried it out? What do you think, could using an open-source framework help me get to the point of producing better quality code faster?
Thanks for any insights!