What Style Do You Code?

[Chen]

You mean "else if" really works? !! I never knew that.. :O

Some languages (such as JavaScript) require you to use "else if" and not "elseif".

If you replace the space with a newline it makes a lot of sense:

if ($foo) {
    bar();
} else
    if ($bar) {
        foo();
    } 

[Valkyre]

Style 2.

[Bane]

Style 2 without the funny indents

[Floris]

When I first write something, I try to comment everything, so I understand what I make and easier to read back and fix things and find syntax errors.

Which would be close to style 2, with indents, just to get easier tree following.

But once it works, I try to clean up as much as possible, and try to be as compact as possible, and just comment on functions, and sometimes on the closing tags for if statements, to make sure I am working on the right one.

Most times, my code doesn't work

[Beorn]

The new standard for vBulletin is style 2 without the spaces in front of brackets.

Darn....lots of extra lines.....
Perhaps you guys should try phpCodeBeautifier. It makes it much prettier.

[Cyborg from DH]

I see no reason why

if ($condition==true)
{
}
else
{
} 

is any worse than

if ($condition==true) {
} else {
} 

they both contain the same number of bits, and the first one looks better, IMO.

[Lost_in_Dark]

This is my style:

if (condition)
{ 
    // do something here 
}
elseif (condition)
{ 
    // do something else 
}
else
{ 
    // do something else 
} 

[Chen]

Personally I don't like that because it makes everything longer. Unfortunately, my mouse wheel does not move X bytes every time, it jumps lines.

[Icheb]

Cyborg from DH: It's neither worse nor better, it's just a matter of personal preference.

[NTLDR]

I use Style 1, I find Style 2 extreamly hard to read for some reason.

[Cyborg from DH]

Cyborg from DH: It's neither worse nor better, it's just a matter of personal preference.

I know it's just a matter of personal preference. I just hear people sometimes saying one is better, when they are both just as good. It is up to you to decide which one looks best to you.

[CeleronXT]

I use Style 1, I find Style 2 extreamly hard to read for some reason.

Me too. I can understand it when { is at the end of a line, but when it starts having { and } on separate lines, it gets too confusing..

[La La Lol]

Originally Posted by CeleronXT
You mean "else if" really works? !! I never knew that.. :O

I didn't know that "elseif" works.. does it?

[NTLDR]

I didn't know that "elseif" works.. does it?

It does indeed, I tend to use elseif as opposed to else if.

[Sn2]

This is my style:

if (condition)
{ 
    // do something here 
}
elseif (condition)
{ 
    // do something else 
}
else
{ 
    // do something else 
} 

Same as what I use