Re: Namespace issues

On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 01:34:12PM +0200, Martin Jansen wrote: > >> For PEAR developers: > >> Any PEAR class that needs URLs may use names below the > >> /internal-pear/<classname>/ branch in a webservers URL > >> namespace tree." > > > >I would prefer to let the user decide where he wants to put its images on > >his server. So I would favour a setImageDirectory() method. > > Right now it's very common in PEAR to use a constant for this: > > define("PEAR_DATA_DIR", $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . > "/internal-pear"); > > would be an example for this. Ok, so there is a method to _change_ this. But what is the default? Also, this does not cover the GPC and global namespace issues. I just skimmed the style guide, and found http://pear.php.net/manual/en/standards.naming.php which states ---- Global variables If your package needs to define global variables, their name should start with a single underscore followed by the package name and another underscore. For example, the PEAR package uses a global variable called $_PEAR_destructor_object_list. ---- This does not create a common PEAR prefix, but instead a lot of delocalized insular namespace pollutions. This may work with globals, but is unacceptable with URLs. Even for globals and GPCs it may be preferable to have a common prefix. Kristian -- http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/wishlist/18E5SVQ5HJZXG