Re: internal function naming

On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Andrey Zmievski wrote: > What's the standard for naming functions that are not callable > directly from PHP scripts? phpi_? > > Reason I'm asking is because dl.c has php3_dl() which is such a > function and the one called from the scripts is just 'dl'. I'd like > to put PHP_FUNCTION() around it but that means I need to rename > existing php3_dl to something else. There is currently no such standard, at least not one that is being followed consistently. We should define one, but I think that the "php_" prefix should not be eaten up by the user-callable functions, since they are mostly named by macros anyway, they can have another prefix, such as phpfunc_. All the functions that in php3 were called _php3*, _php*, php3i_* or sometimes even php3* should IMHO all be renamed to php_*. No fuss. - Stig