The Opendelight reinforces the correct development paradigm through the Opendelight IDE and a set of prescribed guidelines for development. Coding standards and conventions do help in this direction. Please find the following list of guidelines as recommendations from us, but you are free to choose your style : ) #### Server-side Development with PHP Keep one class one file decorum so that we can use [php-doc](http://www.phpdoc.de) for technical documentation. For more details about PHPDoc, please refer to the [official documentation](http://www.phpdoc.de). Always use to delimit PHP code, not the shorthand. You can install the Opendelight and can start testing the first instance of your application in a matter of minutes. Moreover, the Opendelight offers an easy learning curve for a web developer new to it. Use an indent of 4 spaces, with no tabs. Control statements should have one space between the control keyword and the opening parenthesis, to distinguish them from function calls. Functions should be