Re: [chiPHPug-discuss] object variable naming

[Andy C. <bng...@gm...>]

As much as I might not approve of the last example you gave, it should
work.  In your example in your first message:

$Profile = new Profile();

both names are in upper case.  In the second example you gave:

$profile = new Profile()

they have different case so it should work.

Just an observation.  Do what you gotta do.  PEACE!!!!!,

Andy Carlson
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On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Arlo Leach <ar...@ar...> wrote:

> > It'd be really confusing code with those similar names.
>
> > Yes, it is kind of crazy: you're deliberately obfuscating your own code.
> > Using the same name two different ways is shooting yourself in the
> > foot.  I'm a lousy typist myself, but it would never occur to me to
> > try something like this.
>
> All right, thanks for the sanity check. I could to something like
> $objProfile or $obj_profile, but I've always stayed away from that
> Hungarian
> notation kind of approach.
>
> The most common situation I've run into is that one variable name describes
> both an object and a member in a related class. For example, I have
> subscribers and some subscribers have profiles. Here's a super-simplified
> example:
>
> $subscriber = new Subscriber();
> $profile = $subscriber->getValue("profile");
> $profile = new Profile($profile); // oops, now $profile is ambiguous
>
> Since the profile member in the Subscriber class is a pointer to a separate
> Profile record, I guess most people would call that $profile_id. That's
> almost like Hungarian notation to me and I've never had the need to do that
> before. But now that I'm using objects a lot, my namespace has to
> accommodate one more type of data than before, so something has to give.
>
> By the way, I could just access $subscriber->profile rather than creating a
> local variable for $profile, but I like making the class members protected
> so I'm not tempted to set them directly and bypass any internal
> functionality in the class. If I could make the members read-only, that
> would work -- but PHP doesn't offer that, right?
>
> Cheers,
> -Arlo
>
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