Proper Coding layout for PHP

Anon

Hello all,
THanks for taking the time to read this and hopefully help.

I want to know or get an email of proper PHP coding ... what i mean is I am just coding the php and it seems ugly coding and i want to get some sort of structure. If you know of a site or example that would be greatly appreciated. Also if there is a proper way to document my php3 pages ... that would be great.

Any tips, hints, comments are welcome ...

Thanks,
Raistlen.

Anon

Hi Raistlen - I do not think that there is a 'proper' way to code - as long as your code works, is as efficient as you can make it and is readable by any who need to alter it.

I do my coding inline - ie I will<? echo $drop."in";?> php as I go along, loops DB queries - the lot.

Some people find this hard to read - but then again I find other peoples 'neater' style just as hard to read, having to move around the page to find lists of constants/variables etc - who is right? - I am of course LOL!

Anon

It's really just a matter of personal preference.

I think 1 space indents for html and 3 space for php works well.

tag
font_tag
text
&lt?
if()
{
echo "!";
}
?&gt
font_tag_end
tag_end

Anon

I always believed in a heirarchy:

if ($something == "something_else") {
split("/", $data);
$data[0] = $main;
while($main = "") {
print("jkdsfhkjsdfhksdf\n");
}
}

Anon

Hey Guys,
Thanks for the input, I think what i meant to say was the layout of all your code not necessary the if,for, or while loops. What i Meant was that you have a large comments section at the top stating the program name, the programmer, description of what the code does, the variables used, and the last revision date (at what any new programmers used.

Then commenting throughout your program .. stating what each section does. Then dividing the code into two main sections ... coding and then display.

This seems to be how i have went about it ... if anyone has any other examples i would appreciate it

Anon

Thanks you for all the suggestions and i will keep them in mind