RE: [PHP] Variable naming standards???

2002-08-13 Thread Jay Blanchard
[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]

Re: [PHP] Variable naming standards???

2002-08-13 Thread Nicholas Mercier
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

Re: [PHP] Variable naming standards???

2002-08-13 Thread Pushkar Pradhan
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