Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] Greetings, introduction, newbie questions, etc.

[Alan Langford]

At 2005 02 20 13:21, Chris Weiss wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 11:53:59 -0500, Alan Langford <address@hidden> wrote:
> it's called "proposal-branch" in CVS.

Nuts. This means there's some problem with Eclipse; I can't see that 
branch. I guess I'll just do a command line checkout and copy it into a 
test environment.

> lots of things are being put on wiki.phpgroupware.org, but it still
> needs more and some cleanup too.  Some of what's there is just old
> html docs dumped in and needs much refrmating.

Well I'll see what I can create along the way then.

> > Finally, does anyone know of a good, free PHP code formatter? phpGW's
> > formatting standards don't match how my tool chain is set up, and
> > re-configuring them by project is a pain (I have a feature request in at
> > eclipse.org to see if this can be improved, but that could take a long,
> > long time). Anything that saves me from hand-formatting patches would
> > really help.
> >
> "tidy?  don't know, I hand format all my code and don't like it when
> an editor forces me into anything

There's a very good plug-in for Eclipse, called phpeclipse. You tell it how 
you want the code formatted and it takes care of 85% of it as you type. I 
think I can make it meet phpGroupWare standards, but of course I'd prefer 
to work with the code formatted the way I prefer, then be able to fire in 
changes formatted the way the project's coding standards require. I'm a big 
fan of consistency over a team member's personal preferences and quirks. 
It's that whole reformatting process in the middle that's a challenge...