2013/8/31 Mohamed Ashraf mohamed.ashraf.213@gmail.com:

I was looking but didnt find the phpma coding standard for things like docs, function names and conventions.

The question I was looking for was the function name convention for library function since I saw two standards being followed in the codebase and I am not sure which is correct.

If I'm not mistaken, PHP library methods should have this form (following the PEAR standard) :

PMA_someFunction()

- PMA prefix - camelCasing

What other kind of standard did you find?

2013/9/1 Mohamed Ashraf mohamed.ashraf.213@gmail.com:

On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Dieter Adriaenssens dieter.adriaenssens@gmail.com wrote:

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2013/8/31 Mohamed Ashraf mohamed.ashraf.213@gmail.com:

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I was looking but didnt find the phpma coding standard for things like docs, function names and conventions.

The question I was looking for was the function name convention for library function since I saw two standards being followed in the codebase and I am not sure which is correct.

If I'm not mistaken, PHP library methods should have this form (following the PEAR standard) :

PMA_someFunction()

• PMA prefix
• camelCasing

What other kind of standard did you find?

PMA_generate_common_hidden_inputs I did not know if we are using underscores or camel casing. I looked at the pear standard and found out about the rest of the conventions for code. but not the documentation convention.

Yes, camelCase. But phpMyAdmin has a history of 15 years and refactoring is still ongoing, so you might find some other styles as well.

for example if a function returns two things how is that represented in the documentation.

I don't understand what you mean? A function can have only one return value. Do you mean that a function returns an array? Or an object? Or has a 'byReference' parameter? Or sets a global variable?

2013/9/1 Mohamed Ashraf mohamed.ashraf.213@gmail.com:

On Sunday, September 1, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Dieter Adriaenssens wrote:

2013/9/1 Mohamed Ashraf mohamed.ashraf.213@gmail.com:

On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Dieter Adriaenssens dieter.adriaenssens@gmail.com wrote:

2013/8/31 Mohamed Ashraf mohamed.ashraf.213@gmail.com:

I was looking but didnt find the phpma coding standard for things like docs, function names and conventions.

The question I was looking for was the function name convention for library function since I saw two standards being followed in the codebase and I am not sure which is correct.

If I'm not mistaken, PHP library methods should have this form (following the PEAR standard) :

PMA_someFunction()

• PMA prefix
• camelCasing

What other kind of standard did you find?

PMA_generate_common_hidden_inputs I did not know if we are using underscores or camel casing. I looked at the pear standard and found out about the rest of the conventions for code. but not the documentation convention.

Yes, camelCase. But phpMyAdmin has a history of 15 years and refactoring is still ongoing, so you might find some other styles as well.

for example if a function returns two things how is that represented in the documentation.

I don't understand what you mean? A function can have only one return value. Do you mean that a function returns an array? Or an object? Or has a 'byReference' parameter? Or sets a global variable?

The array way. How would that be documented.

Describe the structure (item names and types) of the array. If you think it is difficult to add it after the @returns tag, explain the array structure in the description of the method and refer to it from the comment after ther @returns tag.