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Controversial Rules

This ruleset contains a collection of controversial rules.

Superglobals

Since: PHPMD 0.2

Accessing a super-global variable directly is considered a bad practice. These variables should be encapsulated in objects that are provided by a framework, for instance.

Example: :

class Foo {
    public function bar() {
        $name = $_POST['foo'];
    }
}

CamelCaseClassName

Since: PHPMD 0.2

It is considered best practice to use the CamelCase notation to name classes.

Example: :

class class_name {
}

CamelCasePropertyName

Since: PHPMD 0.2

It is considered best practice to use the camelCase notation to name attributes.

Example: :

class ClassName {
    protected $property_name;
}

This rule has the following properties:

NameDefault ValueDescription
allow-underscorefalseAllow an optional, single underscore at the beginning.
allow-underscore-testfalseIs it allowed to have underscores in test method names.

CamelCaseMethodName

Since: PHPMD 0.2

It is considered best practice to use the camelCase notation to name methods.

Example: :

class ClassName {
    public function get_name() {
    }
}

This rule has the following properties:

NameDefault ValueDescription
allow-underscorefalseAllow an optional, single underscore at the beginning.
allow-underscore-testfalseIs it allowed to have underscores in test method names.

CamelCaseParameterName

Since: PHPMD 0.2

It is considered best practice to use the camelCase notation to name parameters.

Example: :

class ClassName {
    public function doSomething($user_name) {
    }
}

This rule has the following properties:

NameDefault ValueDescription
allow-underscorefalseAllow an optional, single underscore at the beginning.

CamelCaseVariableName

Since: PHPMD 0.2

It is considered best practice to use the camelCase notation to name variables.

Example: :

class ClassName {
    public function doSomething() {
        $data_module = new DataModule();
    }
}

This rule has the following properties:

NameDefault ValueDescription
allow-underscorefalseAllow an optional, single underscore at the beginning.

Remark

This document is based on a ruleset xml-file, that was taken from the original source of the PMD project. This means that most parts of the content on this page are the intellectual work of the PMD community and its contributors and not of the PHPMD project.

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