Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 11/02/07 01:51

Norman Peelman wrote:
> 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
>

Which is Hungarian notation - and something most of us don't use in PHP.

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