Hello. I was just wondering about the coding standards and how flexible they are because I've been using Zend and PEAR as the basis for all of my coding standards for a few years now as they are the standard. Even my IDE is equipped with tools such as codesniffer which is setup to find badly formatted code much like the standards described here.. If I were to submit an add-on with PHP-standard formatted code would it be denied?
Well - going on some of the code in some of the add-ons I've seen, I don't think you'll have any problems...
Seriously though, coding standards are difficult to stick to 100% when you're using different systems. What I mean by that is, Zend have one set and C5 has another set. In many places they complement each other, but in some places they conflict. Personally, I try and stick to Zend standards as much as possible, as that is a much more widely recognized standard and only switch to C5 standards where there would be a conflict.
Quite honestly, I reckon if you are thinking this hard about coding standards, then that puts you above 90% of the programmers out there! :)
Seriously though, coding standards are difficult to stick to 100% when you're using different systems. What I mean by that is, Zend have one set and C5 has another set. In many places they complement each other, but in some places they conflict. Personally, I try and stick to Zend standards as much as possible, as that is a much more widely recognized standard and only switch to C5 standards where there would be a conflict.
Quite honestly, I reckon if you are thinking this hard about coding standards, then that puts you above 90% of the programmers out there! :)
Jon