Does anyone know of a prefix convention used for PHP? What I'm talking about is using a type of Hungarian notation for PHP variables. I know they use 'g', 'm', and 'r' for global, method and reference variables but for other variable types. I get confused once and a while, while I am coding and want to make things clearer than mud...
In a nutshell: it is entirely up to you.
There are some coding standards out there, but there is not such as thing as The Standard. You might be interested in reading
http://pear.php.net/manual/en/standards.php (coding standards) with as a paragraph of it http://pear.php.net/manual/en/standards.naming.php (naming conventions, but as far as i see it does not go much further than
$_UNDERSCORE_WITH_CAPITALS means it is global. )
or another site: http://utvikler.start.no/code/php_coding_standard.html#stacknames.
I can see the use of such conventions especially when you are working in a group.
And when you are combining several applications, it is very usefull if the global variables are called $APP1_name and $APP2_name in stead of both being called $name.... That's why module developers in the nuketype CMSes are asked not to use globals and if they must, use reserved prefixes.
In VBA conventions are much stricter, and go a bit in your direction, e.g. strname would be a string variable. I found some sites, http://www.triadconsulting.com/Resources/Reddick.htm and http://www.mvps.org/access/general/gen0012.htm, that list their standards.
Chris
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