MADE/YOUR/DAY Coding Standards and Style Guide

General

• Use UTF-8 without BOM
• Use tabs for indenting and spaces for aligning. Details…
• No limit on line length. The soft limit is 120 characters. Lines SHOULD be 80 characters or less.
• No whitespace at the end of lines (except special meanings like in markdown or email)
• Always add a new line to the end of files (better for git)

PHP

Follow the standards defined in PSR-0, PSR-1 and PSR-2 except the following points:

• Code MUST use tabs for indenting and spaces for aligning. Details…
• else and elseif MUST be on the next line after the closing parenthesis
• To check if a value is empty or falsy use $var or !$var if the variable definitely exists, otherwise use empty($var) or !empty($var)
• Always use === and !== for string comparison
• Ommit the semicolon for single expressions in php templates (e.g. <?php echo $var ?> instead of <?php echo $var; ?>)
• The last item of an multiline array must end with a comma
• In PHP 5.4 <?= $var ?> should be used instead of <?php echo $var ?>
• In PHP 5.4 [1, 2, 3] should be used instead of array(1, 2, 3)

Examples

• php.php standard PHP code
• php-template.php PHP code used in a template
• php-wordpress.php PHP code in WordPress themes follows the WordPress Coding Standards
• php-wordpress-template.php PHP code used in a WordPress template

HTML

• HTML5
• Write everything in XHTML syntax except self closing tags and boolean attributes (<input checked> instead of <input checked="checked" />)
• Close all tags, except self closing tags as shown above

Examples

• html.html

Editors

Sublime Text 2

Recommended settings:

{
	"draw_white_space": "all",
	"ensure_newline_at_eof_on_save": true,
	"trim_trailing_white_space_on_save": true,
	"open_files_in_new_window": false,
	"rulers": [80, 120]
}