Core Web Application Development with PHP and MySQL

Chapter 29. Development and Deployment

The last topic this book covers before moving on to looking at actual web application samples is development and deployment of your application. Although the technical knowledge covered thus far is a critical part of your application, the means via which you develop it, ensure it works properly, and deploy it to an actual production server are equally important (and all too frequently overlooked).

This chapter discusses

• The importance of coding standards

• Using source code control systems to help us manage our projects, especially for teams of developers

• The importance of testing code properly and some strategies for doing so

• Setup of an intermediate deployment environment for our applications