Hi
On 9/19/22 21:04, Olle Härstedt wrote:
> That looks good in isolation, but consider the following short snippet:
>
> class Foo
> {
> public function bar()
> {
> $query = <<<MySQL
> SELECT * FROM baz
> MySQL;
> }
> }
>
> As you can see, the heredoc breaks the reading flow completely. For
The closing marker of the heredoc may be indented as of PHP 7.3, so the
appropriate comparison would be this:
<?php
class Foo
{
public function __construct(
private \PDO $dbConnection
) {}
public function bar()
{
$query = <<<MySQL
SELECT *
FROM baz
MySQL;
$statement = $this->dbConnection->prepare($query);
$statement->execute();
}
}
> smaller SQL queries, using one line would be an improvement, I think.
A condition-less SELECT should be rare, a condition-less UPDATE or
DELETE even rarer. So this "improvement" would only affect a very small
number of statements in the first place and I disagree with that being
an improvement even for that small number of statements, because it
would be inconsistent with all the other larger statements which *are*
spread across multiple lines.
> Also consider that the one line will look better in your color
> highlight editor. :)
>
I believe that code should be readable no matter the editor it is viewed
in. The suggestion fails at that.
Best regards
Tim Düsterhus
