Comments on: Different Brace Styles in PHP

By: David

David — Thu, 26 May 2011 04:29:08 +0000

lol – i guess it didn’t keep my indents :)

I prefer lining up the ‘c’ of case directly under the braces, whereas Allman would indent the case statements.

By: David

David — Thu, 26 May 2011 04:25:16 +0000

I have been a programmer for nearly 30 years, with 20 years in c and c++ and 12 in PHP – so I have seen many styles. Coding style should be based on your own personal preference, or if you are employed by your companies preference.

I prefer Allman style myself because of its openness, as well as the fact that the control statement and its braces all line up. It seems more popular in c and C++. Whereas K&R now seems more popular in PHP (such as in Drupal source code).

But for switch statements I tend to use my own style as follows:

switch (a)
{
case 1:
b=1;
break;
case 2:
b=2;
break;
}

Allman would normally, instead do the following:

switch (a)
{
case 1:
b=1;
break;
case 2:
b=2;
break;
}

The difference is that case statements seem alot like statement labels to me, which i never indent.

By: Luke Nichols

Luke Nichols — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:17:18 +0000

I’ve always used Allman, even being completely oblivious to what it even was. I guess I just picked up on other code that I looked at, and adopted the style from my earliest tutorials that I read.

It’s interesting to read about the other styles.

By: Kalfir

Kalfir — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:37:33 +0000

Interesting. I always used K&R untill I started working as a programmer. At my first work they used Allman and everyone had to use it to make the code homogeneous. But when working with projects other then our own I get the feeling that K&R is the most commonly used method. So that’s why I started searching if there is a style that is seen as the “right” one.

By: Austin

Austin — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:56:04 +0000

@therealbest.com

Thanks for your comment!

By: therealbest.com

therealbest.com — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:04:13 +0000

Whitesmiths style that I use, very ok :).

By: Austin

Austin — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:46:34 +0000

@Tech-Freak

Yeah, there are a lot of different styles. Thanks for the comment!

By: Tech-Freak Stuff

Tech-Freak Stuff — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:11:51 +0000

WOW! I had the basic Idea how to use them, but I never knew that there are so many types too…