On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 17:34, Ross Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been doing some work on the datetime extension, and while I'm ready to
> commit I'm a little unsure about somethings (mainly PEAR CS). If someone
> could verify the following questions that would be great.
>
> Firstly throughout the DateTime methods we can use procedural or
> object-oriented style. MySQLi is similar and has &mysqli.link.description;
> for the link parameter which is used in the procedural style only. Should I
> add something similar for these DateTime methods (AFAICT I need to add to
> /en/language-snippets.ent)?
Yes.
> Secondly, for PEAR CS I couldn't find anything regarding functions
> concetenated into a string. Which out of these is closest matched to PEAR?
>
> echo "Day 10 of week 2 of 2008 is the " . $datetime->format('jS') . " of " .
> $datetime->format('F') . ".\n";
> echo "Day 10 of week 2 of 2008 is the {$datetime->format('jS')} of
> {$datetime->format('F')}.\n";
It think we usually do:
echo $datetime->format('jS'); // "10th Day of the 2nd week in 2008
Otherwise you first example would be better.
> Also, which of these is most acceptable?
>
> echo $datetime->getTimezone()->getName() . "\n";
>
> $tz = $datetime->getTimezone();
> echo $tz->getName() . "\n";
The first one, unless you will be running multiple methods on the
timezone object, then the second one.
-Hannes
