[wp-hackers] prefix vs postfix - pros and cons

[Michał Środek]

Hello,

remember that PHP( >=5.3 ) has already namespaces (
http://php.net/manual/pl/language.namespaces.php ). Unfortunately php
5.3 is still not so popular so I prefer prefixes.

Michał

2012/2/22 Charles K. Clarkson <cclarkson at htcomp.net>:
> On 2/22/2012 12:55 PM, Haluk Karamete wrote:
>
>> when building a framework of library  functions, and you need to make
>> sure your function and variable/constant names will not get mixed up
>> by people's custom code, which way would you go? prefix your
>> functions?, or postfix them?
>
> You could use a PHP class with your custom functions in it. Use the
> class name ...
>
> bp_Custom_Functions::debug( $args );
>
>
> ... or use "new":
>
> $custom = new bp_Custom_Functions();
>
> $custom->debug( $args );
>
>
> class bp_Custom_Functions {
>
>    function debug( $args ) {
>        wp_die( '<pre>' . var_export( $args, true ) . '</pre>' );
>    }
>
>    // ...
> }
>
>
> HTH,
>
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