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Anyone got a link to a formatter? My code tends to get scrappily formateed and I need something to bring it back into line. I've tried [URL]http://formatter.gerbenvv.nl/index.php[/URL] but it causes errors.

Link me a working one, preferably a (free) download? I'm wary about submitting my hard work to an online source.

*Sigh* Ignore. Sr forums destroyed my example.

Try running some of your PHP through the link I posted below. Is it not more easily readable?

I simply don't have the time to reformat my php if I put say for an example put a new if in the function.

.if(blahblahblah) {
...dostuff();
...if(blahblahblah) {
.....dostuff();
.....if(blahblahblah) {
.......dostuff();
.......if(blahblahblah) {
.........dostuff();
.........if(blahblahblah) {
...........dostuff();
...........if(blahblahblah) {
.............dostuff();
...........}
.........}
.......}
.....}
...}
.}

Gets formatted from: -

if (blahblahblah){
...dostuff();
..if (blahblahblah){
.........dostuff();
if (blahblahblah){
...dostuff();
.....if (blahblahblah){
....dostuff();
if (blahblahblah){
..dostuff();
..if (blahblahblah){
dostuff();
.......}
...........}
.}
.....}
}
}

*Sigh* Ignore. Sr forums destroyed my example.

Try running some of your PHP through the link I posted below. Is it not more easily readable?

I simply don't have the time to reformat my php if I put say for an example put a new if in the function.

.if(blahblahblah) {
...dostuff();
...if(blahblahblah) {
.....dostuff();
.....if(blahblahblah) {
.......dostuff();
.......if(blahblahblah) {
.........dostuff();
.........if(blahblahblah) {
...........dostuff();
...........if(blahblahblah) {
.............dostuff();
...........}
.........}
.......}
.....}
...}
.}

Nimco wrote:
> As a result, I use the same format regardless of the size of function
> - same with IF and WHILE statements - always use multiline format.

Yeha, that's exactly what I do.

function run()
{
this++;
that++;
etc--;
}

Never had to do anything with 50+ things to work with though!

monkey_man wrote:
> EDIT: I've never understood why people write functions as:
>
> function run() {
> blahblahblah; }
>
> Every tutorial on BASIC, or C I've ever read does it like that, when
> it makes much more sense to keep everything together on one line.

Erm, well think what would happen with a large function.... Many functions can often be in excess of 50 lines - that wouldn't be easy to read on one line!!!

As a result, I use the same format regardless of the size of function - same with IF and WHILE statements - always use multiline format.

I don't think it really matters, as long as it works - it could all be in a straight line as far as assembling or compiling it is concerned. I've stuck by my own little format since the days of QBASIC!

function run()
{ this=20; etc++; }

if(something == somethingelse)
{ dothis(); }

while(something > somethingelse)
{ dothat(); something++; }

Quite simple and uncomplicated, just got to establish where your expressions go, function names, parenthesis, etc. Use a tab/line break combo for nested WHILEs or IFs, but I can't write that down properly here.

EDIT: I've never understood why people write functions as:

function run() {
blahblahblah; }

Every tutorial on BASIC, or C I've ever read does it like that, when it makes much more sense to keep everything together on one line.

EDIT #2: Oh, and I always try to declare variables I'll be using as early as possible in the script. For HTML pages I write everything from the top, and format my strings or open and read data files beforehand then echo the variable, instead of putting PHP angles bracketed tags everywhere:


$this = "blah blah blah";
$that = "blur blur blur";

print("







blah blah blah

$this

$that


");

?>

Hope that's some help for you.

Anyone got a link to a formatter? My code tends to get scrappily formateed and I need something to bring it back into line. I've tried [URL]http://formatter.gerbenvv.nl/index.php[/URL] but it causes errors.

Link me a working one, preferably a (free) download? I'm wary about submitting my hard work to an online source.