Comments on: PHP Associative Arrays Coding Style

By: wyznaczanie szlaków

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By: EllisGL

EllisGL — Thu, 20 May 2010 13:26:51 +0000

@Stoimen: You are correct about that. Doh!

By: Stoimen

Stoimen — Thu, 20 May 2010 07:00:06 +0000

@Permana - Yes and that's well described by ZF's coding style here:

When using this latter declaration, we encourage using a trailing comma for the last item in the array; this minimizes the impact of adding new items on successive lines, and helps to ensure no parse errors occur due to a missing comma.

By: Stoimen

Stoimen — Thu, 20 May 2010 06:57:15 +0000

@EllisGL – note that in JavaScript you don’t even use the => notation! So perhaps when you switch coding between PHP and JS there’s not only the last comma problem but the different syntax.
However in JS it’s difficult to say which syntax is correct because only MSIE doesn’t accept the comma after the last pair. In other browsers the code’s parsed correctly with the comma.

By: Permana Jayanta

Permana Jayanta — Thu, 20 May 2010 00:50:13 +0000

“there’s a comma after the second pair. This is correct PHP syntax and is strongly encouraged”

why it is encouraged ? is there any specific reason?

By: EllisGL

EllisGL — Wed, 19 May 2010 15:29:20 +0000

I would argue about number 2 (ha ha). The problem come when you are working between PHP and JS. JS, you can't have the extra comma for your "arrays" My formatting of arrays is like this

$array = array('item1' => 'thing',
               'house' => array('door'   => 'red',
                                'window' => 'clear'
                               )
              );