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PHP PHP Basics Unit Converter Integers

Posted by Tomas Svojanovsky
Tomas Svojanovsky
26,680 Points

Best practice - camel case vs. snake case

Hello, I think the best practice in PHP of writing variables is camel case.

f.e. $bigNumber = 2500; instead of $big_number = 2500;

Futhermore, when you write one line comment you should have one space after slashes

f.e. // This is comment instead of //This is comment

What do you think about it?

1 Answer

Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,117 Points
Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,117 Points

Variable style is per language, and for PHP most developers use underscores or "snake" cases. in JavaScript CamelCase is used.

For comments it really depends on what style you feel is best for you and can give the reader insight into what you are doing.

Tomas Svojanovsky
Tomas Svojanovsky
26,680 Points

I was not sure because symfony, laravel, yii, nette they all use camel case.