Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 11/11/07 00:10

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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