Programming Style

[bhsmither]

A request:

My programmer's text editor (UltraEdit) can match on start/end delimiters and HTML tags. For example:

<div>
{foo < this && bar > that}
</div>

such that when the text cursor is on the <div>, it is highlighted as well as </div>.

Unfortunately, it relies on counting the < and > characters and not so much on the actual tag itself since the tag could contain attributes.

So, using the less-than and greater-than characters in the Smarty syntax will confuse the matching feature.

Therefore, I humbly request that the in-house programming style adopt the usage of employing lt and gt and the other alpha-only variants of expression comparisons wherever possible:
{for $i=1 to 5}
{if $PRODUCT.review_score gte $i}
{elseif $PRODUCT.review_score gt ($i - 1) && $PRODUCT.review_score lt $i}
as examples.

[bhsmither]

And maybe with V6, now might be a good time to enforce certain programming styles (an in-house style book) for any product to be included in the Marketplace.

[abrookbanks]

Brian you are such a wonderful supporter and with all the help and attention you give myself and others I will be very keen to do this. A marketplace programming style would be nice.. so long as people looked at it. I don't want to police mods too hard the rating system should do that for us. Any really poor ones will just be removed. I hope we start seeing some action there soon..

[abrookbanks]

I'm concerned this will scare off developers making skin changes. I also fear adding bugs.

e.g. >= is common syntax "gte", isn't.

Sublime Text parses this ok. Would the developers at UltraEdit be able to add Smarty compatibility? I'm sure a bit of basic regex in the code editor will resolve this.

[abrookbanks]

I'm going to close this as I believe the syntax with angle brackets is more familiar for most users.

Did you see this? http://www.ultraedit.com/downloads/extras/wordfiles.html

In particular the Smarty uew file? I'm sure there must be a regex mod for UltraEdit to achieve this.