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Posted by 4sak3n 0ne on 11/13/07 00:05
On Nov 10, 5:10 pm, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
> 4sak3n 0ne wrote:
> > On Nov 8, 7:45 pm, "Shelly" <sheldonlg.n...@asap-consult.com> wrote:
> >> la...@portcommodore.com wrote:
> >>> As a solo coder for many years I've evolved before PHP in cleaning up
> >>> some of my coding practices (when you have 10+ years of code to
> >>> maintain you learn the hard way the importance of good coding
> >>> practices. Since starting PHP I've adopted many PHP coding guidelines
> >>> for formatting etc.
> >>> It makes life a lot easier to have well formatted code, in debugging
> >>> you will know where you are in a decision process or a loop, and a
> >>> couple years down the road the formatting variable/function naming and
> >>> comments will save you a lot of time getting back up to speed when you
> >>> revisit your old code.
> >>> I use a lot of Pear formatting guidelines for my code - I don't use
> >>> Pear but a lot of their guidelines are very common sense stuff. And
> >>> if I ever do at least I'm part way there.
> >>> have a look and see what you think:
> >>>http://www-eleves-isia.cma.fr/documentation/PhpDoc/pear.standards.html
> >>> Larry
> >> I like the Java naming conventions. I also like K&R block structure for
> >> braces. I use two space tabs. I also put a space before and after an
> >> equals sign or logical operations or concatenation operators. Names should
> >> ALWAYS be meaningful. In multiple condition conditionals I put each
> >> condition in its own parentheses. Also, I like to keep file short. If
> >> there are several operations that are sizable, I will put each in a separate
> >> file (with a good name) and use a require statement. These are a few of the
> >> things I have adopted over the years and it has paid off as both a lone
> >> programmer and as part of a group.
>
> >> --
> >> Shelly
>
> > Is there a specific reason for using spaces instead of tabs? I still
> > use tabs, but format them to 2 spaces.
>
> Tabs save space, but are dependent on editor settings. If your tabs are
> set to 2 space, no real problem. But if your editor sets tabs to 8
> spaces, you'll quickly notice the difference.
>
> --
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> Jerry Stuckle
> JDS Computer Training Corp.
> jstuck...@attglobal.net
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Cool, thanks. I'll keep these thoughts in mind.
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