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MediaWiki is a large-scale PHP project that uses good design patterns, heavy usage of OOP, etc. If you're wondering about good development practices for PHP, I think MediaWiki's codebase is a good thing to look over.

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I wanted to write a plugin for MW years ago and found it painful. There was no clean way to insert raw html into the page as far as I remember.

@Original poster: I think the book "The Architecture Of Open Source Applications" looks interesting, I haven't read it though.

http://www.aosabook.org/en/index.html

Interesting I think I'll put it on my wish list, thanks.

Great thanks, are there any aspects that you particularly liked?

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