Re: Naming conventions

On Wed, 24 May 2000, Matthew Kendall wrote: > Are there any established standard naming conventions for variables, > classes, etc., in PHP programs? If so, can someone point me to a > description. Things that I want to get right first time include: > > filenames - .php or .php3 for scripts? .php or .inc for included scripts? > variable names - myvar, myVar, MyVar, my_var? capitalisation, word > separators, whether to distinguish between locals and globals, notionally > public and private class members, functions and variables, etc. > class names - ditto .php for sure, as php3 is now going to be phased out, leaving the extension a misnomer. .inc should be used carefully, for these files aren't protected in the same way as .php files (in apache atleast) unless you manually configure it to do so. Here is what I've typically seen as the standard naming convention for variables: $CONSTANT, $GlobalValue and $localvar. /me -- Mike Erickson <merickson@fix.net> Network Operations, The FIX Network, Inc. "Worldwide Technology - Hometown Service & Support" (sm)