Ask YC: PHP Coding Standards?

3 points·trickjarrett··4 comments

Do you guys follow any coding standards with PHP? I'm pushing my office to adopt some more than just the basic understood baseline of variables at the top of functions, etc.

PEAR? Or some other set?

Thanks guys!

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Here is the coding standard I've written for my open source project (http://artisansystem.com):

http://docs.artisansystem.com/index.php/Coding_Standard

They can be a little verbose at first, but they make for better readability.

Thanks! I'll take a look at it. Any specific things you want to highlight as a strength for the system?

Its basically a list of things I've done over the years to make my code more readable as I go to great lengths to make it readable (to the point that people have accused me of being too verbose).

Before I moved to functionalized queries, I would always make my queries look as formatted as possible, especially when they contained a lot of joins.

Also, my biggest pet peeve is not having braces around large case statements as it makes it difficult to find the next case statement, I like using my editor to find the matching brace.

1. I use the PEAR standard: Well defined, popular, and plenty of code written in it.

2. Use php_CodeSniffer to check if yout code coonforms to the standard. http://matrix.squiz.net/developer/tools/php_cs

3. Make CodeSniffer a pre-commit hook so that when you commit co to SVN it doesn't let you until, your code follows the standard.

and done.

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