PHP Coding Standards, Autoloading (PSR-4) & Composer – Full PHP 8 Tutorial

In this video, you will learn how to autoload your classes instead of using include & require statements. I’ll show you how autoloader works, how to register custom autoloader & then how to use composer to handle autoloading for you. In addition to autoloading, you will learn about coding standards (PSR) and dependency management using composer.

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LESSON 2.5
Course Outline – https://github.com/ggelashvili/learnphptherightway-outline
Course Playlist – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLr3d3QYzkw2xabQRUpcZ_IBk9W50M9pe-

RESOURCES
PSR-1 – https://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-1/
PSR-4 – https://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-4/
PSR-12 – https://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-12/
Symfony Coding Standards Fixer – https://cs.symfony.com/
PHP Code Sniffer – https://pear.php.net/package/PHP_CodeSniffer/
Composer – https://getcomposer.org/
Versioning – https://getcomposer.org/doc/articles/versions.md
PHP Autoloading – https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.autoload.php
PEAR Coding Standards – https://pear.php.net/manual/en/standards.php
Symfony Coding Standards – https://symfony.com/doc/current/contributing/code/standards.html

For source, you can either use the code from https://github.com/ggelashvili/learnphptherightway-project/tree/2.1 as a starting base & build upon it following this lesson or you can use the one that’s already built at the end of section 2 for exercise: https://github.com/ggelashvili/learnphptherightway-project/tree/2.33

CHAPTERS
00:00 – Autoloading
05:52 – PSR
10:27 – Composer & dependency management
16:31 – Autoloading using composer