Posted by Norman Peelman on 11/01/07 23:01

Philluminati wrote:
> I've been looking on the Internet and I can't seem to see any one
> specifying a variable with a type. Will someone please tell me it can
> be done.
>
> int $tablename = 0;
>
> rather than
>
> var $tablename = 0;
>
> Is it possible?
>
> If not, do you all go back to using hungarian notation in order to
> know what data types your working so you don't accidently set false
> and true against a flag which is supposed to 0 and -1?
>

You could name your variables to match the data you expect them to
hold, for instance:

$bTemp --> boolean
$sTemp --> string
$iTemp --> integer
$fTemp --> float

....it may help you visually.

Norm

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