Variable naming standards???

A philosophical question.... Are there any standards to naming variables?? I was told that one should include a letter or combination of letters to describe a variable i.e. $sfoo = 'string'; // string $bfoo = true; // bool $nfoo = 10; // interger etc.... Thanks -- Gerard Samuel http://www.trini0.org:81/ http://dev.trini0.org:81/