Re: [PHP-DOC] Aliases for functions, and some "Official Function Naming Rules" From: Zak Greant (zak <email protected>)
Date: 09/12/00

At 03:09 PM 9/12/00 -0500, Daniel Beckham wrote:

[snip]
>This also makes complete sense. Although I would think that the only
>functions that really need the parent name first are actual library
>functions such as mcrypt, mysql, et. al., but thats not a big issue.
[snip]

Good point... I really would be miserable having to deal with function
names like:

variable_is_string
string_str_replace
string_quoted_printable_decode

As much as I would hate to deal with names like that, perhaps -- just to be
consistent -- every function should follow the naming convention. If this
was done, the core functions (string, variable, math, date, etc...) should
have short name aliases that are preferred to the long forms.

??anyone

Zak