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Posted by Jason Barnett on 10/04/65 11:05
Tim Burgan wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> What 'rules' do you follow about styling/formatting your PHP code? Do
> you follow a guide that is available online?
<sacred_cow_warning>Please do not flame me here, different strokes for
different folks!</sacred_cow_warning>
If you're entirely new to coding in PHP ... and you don't have a
codebase already existing... then you might consider using the coding
standards as outlined by PEAR (apparently several other people agree):
http://pear.php.net/manual/en/standards.php
>
> I generally have my own preference for formatting like
>
> if ( condition )
> {
> statements;
> }
>
And that's fine. The main thing is: aim for consistency of your coding
standards. That way when you look through an entire project it's easy
to see what's going on.
> for all conditional statements and loops, as opposed to
>
> if (condition) {
> statements;
> }
>
> But what I'm really wanting to get everyones thoughts about is in regard
> to combining PHP with HTML.
>
> I used to do:
>
> <?php
> echo "blah";
> ?><h1>test</h1><?php
> echo "blah";
> ?>
>
Personally I don't mix and match HTML with my PHP code. I am extremely
lazy and enjoy finding PHP code available that will do all of the
echo'ing for HTML I want to build. The PEAR package HTML_Quickform is a
good example here; it solves a common problem (building an MVC form) for
me in a way that is faster than coding it all out by hand. That is,
once you know how to use the package. (There are loads of other
packages out there as well; this is but one example.)
But if you look at your HTML as a template (which it pretty much is) for
your front end and you view PHP as your logic back-end (which it is)
then mixing them together is fine. Separating presentation and logic is
generally a good idea; this way you can easily change the way it looks
without breaking functionality (or vice versa). Although if/when I do
it this way I try to make it pretty obvious what I'm trying to accomplish.
<html>
<head><?php include 'functions.php'; ?></head>
<body>
<h1><?php getHeader1(); ?></h1>
<h2>Hello <?php getUserName(); ?>! How are you doing this fine day?</h2>
</body>
</html>
> but just tried
>
> <?php
> echo 'blah';
> echo '<h1>test</h1>';
> echo 'blah';
> ?>
>
> which I find it's much easier to read to code.
That's always an important consideration. :)
>
> What do other people do and for what reason? What are the
> advantages/disadvantages to doing it certain ways?
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> Tim
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