Specifications

site for a client company, they can often supply a good set of naive users by getting staff at

their company to work through the site. (This has the intrinsic benefit of increasing a client’s

sense of ownership in a site.)

Further Reading

There is so much material to cover in this area—basically we are talking about the science of

software engineering, about which many, many books have been written.

A great book that explains the Web-site-as-document versus Web-site-as-application dichotomy

is Web Site Engineering: Beyond Web Page Design by Thomas A. Powell. Any software engi-

neering book you like will do as a backup.

For information on version control, visit the CVS Web site:

http://www.cvshome.org

There aren’t many books on version control (this is surprising given how important it is!), but

you can try either Open Source Development with CVS by Karl Franz Fogel, or the CVS Pocket

Reference by Gregor N. Purdy.

If you are looking for PHP components, IDEs, or documentation systems, try SourceForge:

http://sourceforge.net

Many of the topics we have covered in this chapter are discussed in articles on Zend’s site. You

might consider going there for more information on the subject. You might also consider

downloading the optimizer from the site when you are there.

http://www.zend.com

If you have found this chapter interesting, you might want to look at Extreme Programming,

which is a software development methodology aimed at domains where requirements change

frequently, such as Web development. The Web site for Extreme Programming is at

http://www.extremeprogramming.org

In Chapter 23, “Debugging,” we will look at different types of programming errors, PHP error

messages, and techniques for finding and gracefully handling errors.

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