PHP Namespace – $this->sux

October 29th, 2008

Posted by scotti3g

Federico makes an interesting point about the PHP Namespaces Controversy on his PHP::Impact blog. I never thought about the mess that is PHP until I saw his comparison table:

Java:
Attribute/Method access: foo.bar
Static method access:    Foo.bar
Package access:          foo.bar.baz

C#:
Attribute/Method access: foo.bar
Static method access:    Foo.bar
Namespace access:        foo.bar.baz

Python:
Attribute/Method access: foo.bar
Static method access:    Foo.bar
Module access:           foo.bar.baz

PHP:
Attribute/Method access: $foo->bar
Static method access:    Foo::bar
Namespace access:        C:\foo\bar\baz

I guess I can’t complain though as the syntax of PHP is still a lot closer to more “traditional” languages than something like Ruby (not talking about the namespace, just the language in general)… :)

Tags: namespace, naming conventions, PHP

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cg
January 27th, 2009 at 3:20 pm

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PHP’s access things are taken from C/C++.
C/C++ have . -> and :: for different things.

Having the :: makes it easier to see static methods, as you and stick a non-initialiuzed class into a variable if you want (although usually that would be silly)

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