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Data Store – Build, Test, & Validate the Basics

Let’s build, test, and validate the basics of the data store. In this hands-on coding lab, you’ll build the basic functionality and attributes of the data store in 3 different implementations: procedural, static class, and OOP. You’ll build a full test suite. And you’ll validate that the code complies to the WordPress Coding Standard.

Data Store - Build, Test, & Validate the Basics

What You’ll Be Doing

In this hands-on lab, you will walking through the entire process of building, testing, and validating 3 different implementations of the Data Store. You’ll take the requirements you build in the last lab and then incrementally, step-by-step build it.

Complete Master Series Project

This is a master series, meaning that you are defining, building, and testing a complete project while mastering each part of the process.
We start at the beginning and together walk through the project, step-by-step just like if we were on a team together.

Don’t skip steps. Walk systematically with me throughout each episode of each lab in this series.

What You Will Learn

In this lab, you’ll learn by doing. You’ll walk through the entire process, step-by-step while you are learning the following:

Deeper PHP Development
With 3 different implementations, you’ll be mastering PHP

  • Namespace
  • Static and scope
  • Procedural
  • Static class
  • OOP
  • Documenting with DocBlocks
  • Controlling access
  • Hiding complexity
  • Array data structure
  • Working with arrays

Clean, Quality Code in Practice
Actively follow a professional workflow with git, testing, and code validation

  • Make core readable
  • Build in a modular design pattern
  • Document where appropriate
  • Break code up into skinny, purposeful functionality that does one thing
  • Refactor when needed
  • and more

Test and Validate
Build unit tests and validate the code to WPCS

  • Go deep into testing strategies
  • Build a complete unit test suite
  • Cover the PHPUnit Tests coding standard
  • Validate the code complies with the WordPress Coding Standard
  • Fix validation WPCS problems
  • Cover problem solving techniques when tests fail
  • and more

Developer’s Modern Workflow
Actively follow a professional workflow with git, testing, and code validation

  • Use Composer
  • Configure PHPUnit, PHPCS, and WPCS
  • Build scripts to automate tasks
  • Build in feature branches
  • Commit strategies
  • Pull Requests
  • Merging
  • Pulling down updates to stay synched
  • and more

Prerequisites

7 Episodes
00:46:51 Runtime

Data Store Project Setup

Data Store - Project Setup

Before we start the project, you need to setup the project's environment. You'll use this environment and workflow throughout the series to plan, build, test, and validate the data store. You'll fork the starter plugin, clone it to your local machine, run the starter test suite, and walk through the plugin's architecture and setup.

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18 Episodes
02:39:26 Runtime

Data Store - Planning the Requirements

Data Store - Planning the Requirements

Before we can build the data store, we need to understand what it is we need to build. In this lab, you'll think through each of the requirements, working to define what makes a store a store, how to interact with it, what functionality is needed, and conceptually how to achieve it, and then what approaches you'll employ in the series.

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See the list of prerequisites and suggestions on the series landing page.

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Episodes

Total Lab Runtime: 00:00:00

What to Do Next?

Coming Soon

Data Store API – Build, Test, & Validate

In Part 4 of the Data Store Project series, you’ll build the API for each implementation of the data store. The API will hide away the implementation, allowing you to switch implementations without having to change the code that uses the API. What You’ll Be Doing x What You Will Learn x Prerequisites See the list of prerequisites and suggestions on the series landing page.

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Check out the Plugin Development Library for more hands-on labs, insights, Docx, and more.

Check out the series page for more labs: Data Store Series – Centralized, Persistent, & In-Memory PHP Storage Project

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