In programming languages such as ASP.NET they release and example program and as far as I know its well written, good standards etc.
I think something that would really help the PHP community would be an exemplar PHP program. It could demonstrate good practices etc. It doesn't need to be anything huge, in fact something small done really well would be better.
I realise it wouldn't be able to show all of the techniques that you would need but it would be nice to show off new topics etc.
Maybe some design patters or architectural styles could be demonstrated as well.
Hmm, this might be a good project for the PHP community if anybody out there is looking for one 😛
Doing it in the style of a wiki website might work well, people could keep updating the code with discussions of best practice for a number of problems.
Of course it should be well documented too 🙂 nothing over the top, just comments and so forth. Maybe a description of it. This idea wouldn't be to teach people PHP from scratch, but to encourage and demonstrate good, useful techniques.
What do you all think?
