Re: Coding Style Question...

On Mon, October 2, 2006 7:32 pm, Tony Di Croce wrote: > I am relatively new to PHP... I have about 1.5 years of light PHP work > under > my belt... Over the past year or so my PHP coding style has evolved > significantly and I'm curious as to how experienced programmers write > PHP... > > Basically, here is what I have evolved to: > > 1) ALL php code is at the top of the file. > 2) ALL html code is in a here document at the bottom. > 3) php code is run before 1 character is outputed (and hence, no > headers are > sent, leaving redirects open for possibilities) > 4) I almost always following my require_once directives with a > session_start() at the top of the file. > 5) Often, my forms submit to the PHP page that generated them but do > so with > a hidden posted variable. If that variable is set, then I process the > form > submission. > > I think the most important part of all this is #1 & #2... I think I am > using > PHP a little like template engine this way... > > It seems to me that I most often see code snippets that try to > intertwine > HTML and PHP, but in my experience, except for trivial examples, this > doesn't work so good... > > What do you think? I do the same, but will mingle HTML/PHP for layout/formatting or User Interface logic. And I don't bother with a heredoc, since I find it easier to edit HTML with the occasional <?php echo $foo?> in it. E.g., a popup menu of the years from "current" to 10 years into the future for the credit card expiration is not exactly complex back-end business logic. A simple 'for' loop in my HTML to do that is vastly superior to the "solution" of templates that require hours of back-tracking through 7 PHP/template/HTML/whatever files to sort out what the heck is going on here... And, yes, I *did* once waste hours to find out how they were generating a 10-year popup for the credit card expiration... Which they had HARD-CODED the 'start' year in their business logic!!! Sheesh! Back-tracking that through the files turned a 5-minute task into hours wasted. And folks wonder why I think PHP *is* a template language and you shouldn't use another one on top of it... -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?