Re: consistent PHP function names?

On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 09:10:16AM -0700, Raquel Rice wrote: : : On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 21:22:36 +1000 : Justin French <justin@indent.com.au> wrote: : : > I posted a similar topic a few months back. I guess the answer is : > that the collaborative nature of open source, and the fact that : > PHP has grown from very humble beginnings has meant that naming : > standards and conventions are a little lacking. : > : > It would've been nice if these issues were rectified in PHP5 with : > deprecated aliases to the old names left in for backwards : > compatibility, but it'd be a HUGE job :) : : I suppose that if this really bothers someone, they could create : their own aliases. : : function decodehtmlentities($string, $quote_style, $charset) { : return html_entity_decode($string, $quote_style, $charset); : } That's simply an additional function call, which slows things down just a little more. But it's probably still faster than object methods. :-)