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PHP Enhancing a Simple PHP Application Paginating a List: Model and View Creating the Model Function

Ethan Neff
Ethan Neff
27,058 Points
Posted by Ethan Neff
Ethan Neff
27,058 Points

Why do you keep switching from camelCasing and underscore for variable naming?

The arguments for get_product_subset() are camel cased, while the majority of your other code is using underline variable formatting.

1 Answer

Matthew Orndoff
Matthew Orndoff
9,018 Points

It's totally a matter of preference, and really doesn't matter as long as you're consistent. A lot of devs have their own preference, but for larger projects there are usually code standards set up.

Here's a list of the different naming conventions in some PHP frameworks. They are consistent in that they're all basically different.