PSR

What is PSR?

PSR stands for PHP Standards Recommendation and is a set of guidelines published by the PHP-FIG (PHP Framework Interop Group) to standardise things across PHP projects, especially libraries and frameworks.

What kind of standards does PSR define?

• Coding style
  • PSR-1: Basic Coding Standards
    • Basic standards (e.g., class names must be StudlyCaps, files must use <?php, etc).
  • PSR-12: Extending Coding Style
    • Standards for indentation, spacing, etc.
• Autoloading
  • PSR-4: Defines autoloading standards using namespaces and directory structures.
  • PSR-0: The now deprecated autoloading standards.
• Containers & Services
  • PSR-11: Defines standards for dependency injection containers (defines a common ContainerInterface).
• HTTP messaging
  • PSR-7: HTTP message interfaces (defines RequestInterface, ResponseInterface).
  • PSR-15: HTTP middleware interface (defines how middleware should be written).
  • PSR-17: HTTP factory interfaces for creating PSR-7 compliant objects.
• Logging & Caching
  • PSR-3 (GitHub repo): Logging interfaces (defines a LoggerInterface with particular levels like info, error, etc).
  • PSR-6: Low-level, pool-based acching interface.
  • PSR-16: Simplified caching interface (key-value style)