[wp-hackers] Coding Standards

[Mike Little]

On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 09:54:19 -0700, Toivo Lainevool
<tlainevool at xmlpatterns.com> wrote:
> Mike Little wrote:
> 
> >As Alex already pointed out, we already have guidelines here:
> >http://wordpress.org/docs/developer/coding-style/
> >
> >Perhaps they could be more explicit though: i.e. "Pear standards
> >except as noted here."
> >
> >Mike
> >
> The problem is the wp code *doesn't* follow the pear standards as far as
> I can tell.
> 

As it says at the head of the page to which I linked:
"Some legacy parts of the WordPress code are inconsistent in their
style, and our goal is to gradually improve this as we work through
all of the code."


> For example, the PEAR standard states:
> "Class names should always begin with an uppercase letter"
> (http://pear.php.net/manual/en/standards.naming.php)
> 
> Examples of wp class names: xmlrpc_client,  wpdb
> 

Interestingly, both examples you give are non-wordpress code!


Mike
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