Hello Jason,
Sunday, February 15, 2004, 7:44:06 PM, you wrote:
>> I feel the book you're learning from might not be the best out there!
>> Especially as it uses the horrible if : else : endif notation,
>> includes code on the same line as the PHP tags themselves
JW> What is horrible about that style? IMO doing this:
Consistency. The majority of code you can download will not use this
notation. Although PHP coding standards are subjective as best, you
still won't find any advocating this technique. Pick a style and stick
to it. It's usually best if that style at least matches something like
the official PHP documentation.
JW> <?php if ($something) : ?>
To me this is a mess and I would never advocate this style. Code on
the same line as a php delimiter does not make for easy reading.
JW> looks a lot neater than:
JW> <?php
JW> if ($something) {
I wouldn't have done it like that either, although its closer.
<?php
if ($something)
{
...
}
?>
JW> But whichever style a book chooses to use should not impact on one's decision
JW> as to whether it is a good book or not.
Of course it does, especially when combined with the other factors I
listed. If the book you're learning from doesn't teach good coding
practise - what will? It's not something you're "born" with.
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Best regards,
Richard Davey
http://www.phpcommunity.org/wiki/296.html
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