[TYPO3-50-general] Common namings for variables with path-content

Ingmar Schlecht ingmar at typo3.org
Wed Jan 14 15:15:01 CET 2009


Robert Lemke schrieb:
> 
> Am 14.01.2009 um 14:51 schrieb Ingmar Schlecht:
> 
>> I agree with all of your suggestions, but what's missing is a name for
>> "filename with path".
>>
>> So how would you call "/path/to/the/file.php". Would it be a "filePath"?
> 
> Yeah, that's a difficult one I tried to circle around ;-) In my other
> scripts I would usually write something like "fullPathAndFileName" if it
> was an absolute file name.
> 
> But yes, why not take "filePath" - it could even be combined as in
> "absoluteFilePath" or "relativeFilePath".

The only problem with filePath is that it ends in "path", so one might
mistake it for a path. So lockFilePath could either be the lockFile path
or it could be the lock filePath.

Any suggestions to solve that problem?

cheers
Ingmar

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Ingmar Schlecht
TYPO3 Core Developer


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