I am relatively new to PHP... I have about 1.5 years of light PHP work under my belt... Over the past year or so my PHP coding style has evolved significantly and I'm curious as to how experienced programmers write PHP... Basically, here is what I have evolved to: 1) ALL php code is at the top of the file. 2) ALL html code is in a here document at the bottom. 3) php code is run before 1 character is outputed (and hence, no headers are sent, leaving redirects open for possibilities) 4) I almost always following my require_once directives with a session_start() at the top of the file. 5) Often, my forms submit to the PHP page that generated them but do so with a hidden posted variable. If that variable is set, then I process the form submission. I think the most important part of all this is #1 & #2... I think I am using PHP a little like template engine this way... It seems to me that I most often see code snippets that try to intertwine HTML and PHP, but in my experience, except for trivial examples, this doesn't work so good... What do you think? -- Publish technical articles @ skilledwords.com and get 100% of the ad-revenue! http://www.skilledwords.com
