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Laravel Best Practice [Coding Standards Part 01 ] πŸ§‘β€πŸ¦°πŸ‘©β€πŸ¦°

Hi guys, From this article I'm starting to describe you to about Laravel [PHP] coding Standards with PSR.

To make this tutorials much easier, I will divide full tutorial as number or articles. So this is first articles of them.

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Article 1 : Naming Conventions. ✊

Here we will talk about naming conventions about PHP. Following conventions have accepted by Laravel community.

01.01 Controller πŸ‘ˆ

  • Name should be in singular form.
  • Should use PascalCase.
Should Do Should't Do
CustomerController.php CustomersController.php

01.02 Route πŸ‘ˆ

01.02.01 Route Url πŸ‘ˆ
  • Url should be in plural form.
  • Can use kebab-case if there are two words in single part For best Practice.
Should Do Should't Do
/customers/25 customer/25
/customers/password-reset /customers/password_reset
" /customers/passwordReset
01.02.02 Route Name πŸ‘ˆ
  • Should use snake_case with dot notation.
  • Better to use same name like in URL.
Should Do Should't Do
->('customers.view') ->('customers-view')
" ->('customers_view')
->('customers.password_reset') ->('customers.password.reset')
" ->('customers.password-reset')
" ->('customer-password-reset')

01.03 DataBase Related πŸ‘ˆ

01.03.01 Migration πŸ‘ˆ
  • Should use name as what you want to do with snake_case.
Should Do Should't Do
2021_03_19_033513_create_customers_table.php 2021_03_19_033513_customers.php
2021_03_19_033513_add_image_id_to_customers_table.php 2021_03_19_033513_add_image_id_customers.php
2021_03_19_033513_drop_image_id_from_customers_table.php 2021_03_19_033513_remove_image_id_customers.php
01.03.02 Table πŸ‘ˆ
  • Table name must be in plural form.
  • Should use snake_case.
Should Do Should't Do
customers customer
cart_items cartItems , CartItems , Cart_item
01.03.03 Pivot Table πŸ‘ˆ
  • Table name must be in singular form.
  • Should use snake_case
  • Names should be in alphabetical Order.
Should Do Should't Do
course_student student_courses , students_courses ,course_students
01.03.04 Table Columns πŸ‘ˆ
  • Should use snake_case.
  • Should not use table name with column names.
  • Readable name can use for better practice.
Should Do Should't Do
first_name user_first_name , FirstName
01.03.05 Foreign key πŸ‘ˆ
  • Should use snake_case.
  • Should use singular table name with id prefix.
Should Do Should't Do
course_id courseId , id ,courses_id ,id_course
01.03.06 Primary key πŸ‘ˆ
  • only use name as id.
Should Do Should't Do
id custom_name_id
01.03.07 Model πŸ‘ˆ
  • Model name must be in singular form.
  • Should Use PascalCase
  • Model name must be a singular form or table name.
Should Do Should't Do
Customer Customers,customer
01.03.08 Model Single relations [Has One, Belongs To] πŸ‘ˆ
  • Method name must be in singular form.
  • Should Use camalCase
Should Do Should't Do
studentCourse StudentCourse,student_course,studentCourses
01.03.09 Model all other relations and methods [Has Many,other] πŸ‘ˆ
  • Method name must be in plural form.
  • Should use camalCase
Should Do Should't Do
cartItems CartItem,cart_item,cartItem

01.04 Functions πŸ‘ˆ

  • Should Use snake_case
Should Do Should't Do
show_route showRoute,ShowRoute

01.05 Methods in resources controller πŸ‘ˆ

  • Should use camelCase
  • Must use singles words related to action
Should Do Should't Do
store saveCustomer
show viewCustomer
destroy deleteCustomer
index allCustomersPage

01.06 Variables πŸ‘ˆ

  • Should use camelCase
  • Must use readable words which are describe about value.
Should Do Should't Do
$customerMessages $CustomerMessages ,$customer_messages , $c_messages , $c_m

01.07 Collection πŸ‘ˆ

  • Must described about the value.
  • Must be plural
Should Do Should't Do
$verifiedCustomers = $customer->verified()->get() $verified ,$data , $resp , $v_c

01.07 Object πŸ‘ˆ

  • Must described about the value.
  • Must be singular
Should Do Should't Do
$verifiedCustomer = $customer->verified()->first() $verified ,$data , $resp , $v_c

01.08 Configs πŸ‘ˆ

  • Should use snake_case
  • Must described about the value.
Should Do Should't Do
comments_enabled CommentsEnabled ,comments , c_enabled , $ce

01.09 Traits πŸ‘ˆ

  • Should be adjective.
Should Do Should't Do
Utility UtilityTrait ,Utilities

01.10 Interface πŸ‘ˆ

  • Should be adjective or a noun.
Should Do Should't Do
Authenticable AuthenticationInterface ,Authenticate

So above I have talked about naming convetion in Laravel projects. not only Laravel you guys can use this rules with any other PHP framework.

With next article I will talk about another main topic of coding standards.

I hope you find my post useful! Any feedback is greatly appreciated!

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Bobby Iliev

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Lathindu Pramduitha

Thank you very much Bobby lliev

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Dave Budah

I love the insight. Thank you.