Which convention is more common “static public function” or “public static function” (based on Symfony and Doctrine)
25 January 2010
Few minutes ago Brent Shaffer asked on the Twitter
Which is more standard, “public static function” or “static public function”?
I was curious about it, so I’ve checked which convention is used in my favourite Symfony Project. Of course, I haven’t got enough time to check it manually, class by class, so I wrote simple bash script:
egrep "^[^\*/]*static.*function" /usr/share/php/symfony/ -rioh --include=*.php | sed 's/^\s*//g' | sort | uniq -c | sort -r
The answer for the Symfony 1.2 was:
685 public static function 181 static public function 27 static protected function 16 protected static function 16 private static function 11 static function 2 abstract public static function
I’ve done same thing for Doctrine ORM Project
egrep "^[^\*/]*static.*function" /usr/share/php/Doctrine/lib/ -rioh --include=*.php | sed 's/^\s*//g' | sort | uniq -c | sort -r
and the result was:
78 public static function 6 static public function 6 static protected function
Now I can tell that “public static function” is more common, and by the way I use same convention in my classes :-)
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