New lines by Default?

[random1]

Hi All,

 

I'd like to know if it's possbile to set in code to make new lines in source code after a certain number of characters/

 

i.e. automatically put a new line in source

(not <br />)

after every 30 characters. I'm trying to keep my code clean.

[kenrbnsn]

Please explain your question better.

 

Ken

[Barand]

Are you saying that this

<?php
functiondrawWeb(){$ang=360/$th
is->numpts;$cx=$cy=$this->size
/2;imagesetthickness($this->im
,1);for($i=$this->firstAngle;$
i<=360;$i+=$ang){$a=-deg2rad($
i);$this->angles[]=$a;imagelin
e($this->im,$cx$cy,$cx+$this->
radius1*cos($a),$cy+$this->rad
ius1*sin($a),$this->webcolor);
}$this->angles[]=-deg2rad($thi
s->firstAngle);$rstep=$this->r
adius2/5;for($r=$rstep;$r<=$th
is->radius2;$r+=$rstep){for($i
=0;$i<$this->numpts;$i++){imag
eline($this->im,$cx+$r*cos($th
is->angles[$i]),$cy+$r*sin($th
is->angles[$i]),$cx+$r*cos($th
is->angles[$i+1]),$cy+$r*sin($
this->angles[$i+1]),$this->web
color);}}}

 

is "cleaner" than this

<?php
    function drawWeb() {
        $ang = 360/$this->numpts;
        $cx = $cy = $this->size/2;
        imagesetthickness($this->im, 1);
        for ($i=$this->firstAngle; $i <= 360; $i+=$ang) {
            $a = -deg2rad($i);
            $this->angles[] = $a;
            imageline($this->im, $cx, $cy, $cx+$this->radius1*cos($a), $cy+$this->radius1*sin($a), $this->webcolor);
        }
        $this->angles[] = -deg2rad($this->firstAngle);
        $rstep = $this->radius2/5;
        for ($r=$rstep; $r<=$this->radius2; $r+=$rstep) {
            for ($i=0; $i<$this->numpts; $i++) {
                imageline($this->im,$cx+$r*cos($this->angles[$i]), $cy+$r*sin($this->angles[$i]),
                    $cx+$r*cos($this->angles[$i+1]), $cy+$r*sin($this->angles[$i+1]), $this->webcolor);
            } 
        }
    }

[random1]

No Barand I'm not saying that. For far more characters. Maybe 40 characters across, just so that there is not horizonatal scrolling required in code.

[wildteen88]

What editor are you using to create your PHP scripts? Most PHP editors have a setting for showing a "Right margin" which will display a grey line up to x amount of characters so when you get up to right margin you can decide whether to carry on or go to the next line.

 

If you are outputting very large strings then use the concatenation to split the string into multiple lines, eg:

$str = 'Some very long string here. '. // split long string into multiple lines
       'carry on very long string. '.
       'and so on';

 

The above comes in handy with very long MySQL query's. Query's do not need to be defined in one continuous line.

This will help to eliminate scrolling. Another example :-

 

If you are defining an array which has a lot of items, I prefer to define each array item on a separate line, eg:

$arr = array( 'item1',
              'item2',
              'item3',
              'item4' => array( 'item4_a',
                                'item4_b',
                                'etc' )
            );

 

You do not always have to code very long lines. Try to split them up in some way.

[random1]

Thanks I'll do that instead