Jeremy, you seem to use the same coding standards I do. The only difference is I prefer 4 spaces for indentation. I have found that it is easier for me to read that way.

Well said Jeremy.

im a fan of using curly braces on their own lines i find it much more readable.
and personally i think the amount of lines is trivial.

I think in most cases i think that if you can write minimal code but still make it neat and readable is always preferd.

some of the code i have seen where i look and go wait a minute why have you got something like this:

PHP Code:

if(con1)
{
if(con2)
{
echo 'con1 and con2 are true';
}
} 


when just having

PHP Code:

if(con1 === TRUE && con2 === TRUE)
{
echo 'con1 and con2 are true';
} 


etc...anywya simple things like that bug me especially when i think almost all the time its been on scripts which the coder has sold often for a bit of money.

im currently recoding a mccodes script which frankly is awful in places, mate paid 12£ for it and i refused to pay anything because i knew i would have to do so much work to it and i was right!

anyway going a bit of track here.

bottom line i think that while there are tons of materials online to teach you php i dont remember any decent ones to telll you the best and most readable ways and shall we say the grammer of coding. which is as important sometimes as the functionability.

Cool responses. Im not complaining, I dont mind adding ";" Im just overly curious about trivial things .

Originally Posted by dansgalaxy

... and personally i think the amount of lines is trivial.

Completely agree.

Originally Posted by dansgalaxy

... some of the code i have seen where i look and go wait a minute why have you got something like this:

PHP Code:

if(con1)
{
if(con2)
{
echo 'con1 and con2 are true';
}
} 


when just having

PHP Code:

if(con1 === TRUE && con2 === TRUE)
{
echo 'con1 and con2 are true';
} 


Yep. The first code segment bothers me too.

Originally Posted by dansgalaxy

bottom line i think that while there are tons of materials online to teach you php i dont remember any decent ones to telll you the best and most readable ways and shall we say the grammer of coding. which is as important sometimes as the functionability.

Here is one that is used by many php developers
http://pear.php.net/manual/en/standards.php

One used by the Zend PHP Framwork
http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/...-standard.html

Can i just say something:

okay someone on here who is learning PHP was talking to me and on his code he has some funny bits which were completely pointless and when asked its because he thought it was right because the colours on his editor went differant.

hehe

colours are a guide not a law people!