RE: [PHP] Variable naming standards???
[snip] A philosophical question Are there any standards to naming variables?? I was told that one should include a letter or combination of letters to describe a variable i.e. $sfoo = 'string'; // string $bfoo = true; // bool $nfoo = 10; // interger [/snip] http://ootips.org/hungarian-notation.html Hungarian notation was conceived so that variable types would be easily identifiable in code. YMMV Jay -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Variable naming standards???
My two cents, I think if you are working on a personal product you use what works for you. If working in a group find out or decide as a group what standards to use. The hungarian standards are well designed, but I've seen others that work as well. When posting data from a from to another script I've see F used... as in $f_username $f_userpass. As well as many others. The best advise I could give with my (VERY) limited experience, chose a constant method for yourself and stick to it. That way it will become second nature to you. Nick At 09:52 AM 8/13/2002 -0400, Gerard Samuel wrote: A philosophical question Are there any standards to naming variables?? I was told that one should include a letter or combination of letters to describe a variable i.e. $sfoo = 'string'; // string $bfoo = true; // bool $nfoo = 10; // interger etc Thanks -- Gerard Samuel -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Variable naming standards???
Samuel this is what you can use as a standard (at least for yourself): http://www.cs.msstate.edu/~cs1314/global/guide It describes how to name variables, functions, scripts etc. In short the variable names must tell the programmer what it is being used for, e.g. $countHits = 0; // initialize counter to count no. of hits on the page or use _ to separate words - $count_hits = 0; On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Nicholas Mercier wrote: My two cents, I think if you are working on a personal product you use what works for you. If working in a group find out or decide as a group what standards to use. The hungarian standards are well designed, but I've seen others that work as well. When posting data from a from to another script I've see F used... as in $f_username $f_userpass. As well as many others. The best advise I could give with my (VERY) limited experience, chose a constant method for yourself and stick to it. That way it will become second nature to you. Nick At 09:52 AM 8/13/2002 -0400, Gerard Samuel wrote: A philosophical question Are there any standards to naming variables?? I was told that one should include a letter or combination of letters to describe a variable i.e. $sfoo = 'string'; // string $bfoo = true; // bool $nfoo = 10; // interger etc Thanks -- Gerard Samuel -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -Pushkar S. Pradhan -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
