Question about Coding Style

[tbourke]

I've got a question for those experienced in PHP about coding style.

I've done a few functions lately that I've given names like GetVariable() and CountUsers(). At least to me, they looked better than get_variable, and count_users.

However, looking newly at classes and object oriented programming in general, I'm noticing that capital lettors seemed to be reserved for those tasks.

Is there an accepted standard for nomenclature for PHP?

I would pose the same question to db table names, such as in MySQL. I've got tables names like User with a primary key of UserID.

[drew010]

well as ive learned in college in core computer science programming courses, there are general conventions for naming variables and functions. they arent standards so you dont have to do it any certain way, but its a convention for readability and understanding.
Usually functions and variables start with lowercase and any other words you have in it are capitalized. for example firstName, lastName, inputFile
and with functions its to name them very well. i.e. getUserInputData instead of getData because getData can represent data from anything, a file, input, or a database. but getUserInputData tells its coming from the user...
i can go on forever about what teachers have said if you want but basically it comes down to being however you want to name them, and following conventions is optional.

hope that helped a little.

[Weedpacket]

The only set of PHP coding standards that has any sort of claim to be "official" (tenuous though it is) would be those of the PEAR (it's tenuous because it's "this is how code for the PEAR should look", not "this is how all your code should look").

But in general, as long as you (and everyone else involved) are consistent throughout a project, and not downright silly, go with what looks best.