Angus Mann wrote:
Hi all, I'm fairly new to PHP so I don't have too many bad habits yet.
I'm keen to make my code easy to read for me in the future, and for
others as well.
Are there any rules or advice I can use for formatting (especially
indenting) code?
for example how best to format / indent this ?
if ($variable = 'this')
{
do this;
and this;
}
else
{
if ($name = 'bill')
{
do something will bill;
and something else with bill;
}
else
{
assume its not bill;
and do the fred thing;
}
First - if ($variable = 'this') with assign the value "this" to variable
and then return true. Probably not what you want ;)
This is what I do:
if ($variable == 'this') {
do this;
and this;
} else {
if ($name == 'bill') {
do something with bill;
and something else with bill;
} else {
assume its not bill;
and do the fred thing;
}
}
// note that you were missing a } - easy to miss with your style
Of course - it is better like this
if ($variable == 'this') {
do this;
and this;
} elseif ($name == 'bill') {
do something with bill;
and something else with bill;
} else {
assume its not bill;
and do the fred thing;
}
but what many like to do is something like this:
if ($variable == 'this')
{
do this;
and this;
} elseif ($name == 'bill') {
do something with bill;
and something else with bill;
} else {
assume its not bill;
and do the fred thing;
}
To each his own. Whatever floats your canoe.
Just whatever you pick, stick to it throughout your code.
I'm using "PHP designer 2008" which does syntax coloring but if it has
something to automatically indent - I haven't found it yet.
It probably allows you to either set a specify a tab as a real tab or a
specified number of spaces. Auto-indenting - this isn't python, the
compiler doesn't enforce it's way, you follow the convention of the
project you are working on - so I suspect many php editors tailored to
php don't have an auto indent.
I've never of course tried that specific product. I use bluefish, vi,
and emacs.
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