Re: Why are file names now CamelCased?

And applying two naming conventions to similar things is kind of
silly. The issues of camelcase folders was discussed on the cakephp-
core list and the general consensus there was to camelcase folders.
This meant the eventual namespace names would be cased the same as
classnames.

-Mark

On Nov 3, 9:49 pm, Miles J <mileswjohn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Camel cased file names for PHP classes are the best approach and helps
> for simple 1 to 1 autoloading. It's based off of Javas packaging and
> naming architecture.
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> However, camel cased folders are evil.
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> On Nov 3, 1:16 pm, Thiago Belem <cont...@thiagobelem.net> wrote:
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> >http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/appendices/2-0-migration-guide.html
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> > File and Folder
> > naming<http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/appendices/2-0-migration-guide.html#fi...>
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> > In CakePHP 2.0 we rethought the way we are structuring our files and
> > folders. Given that PHP 5.3 is supporting namespaces we decided to prepare
> > our code base for adopting in a near future this PHP version, so we adopted
> > thehttp://groups.google.com/group/php-standards/web/psr-0-final-proposal.
> > At first we glanced at the internal structure of CakePHP 1.3 and realized
> > that after all these years there was no clear organization in the files,
> > nor did the directory structure really hint where each file should be
> > located. With this change we would be allowed to experiment a little with
> > (almost) automatic class loading for increasing the overall framework
> > performance.
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> > Biggest roadblock for achieving this was maintaining some sort of backwards
> > compatibility in the way the classes are loaded right now, and we
> > definitely did not want to become a framework of huge class prefixes,
> > having classnames like My_Huge_Class_Name_In_Package. We decided adopting a
> > strategy of keeping simple class names while offering a very intuitive way
> > of declaring class locations and clear migration path for future PHP 5.3
> > version of CakePHP
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> > 2011/11/3 Martin Bean <mar...@mcbwebdesign.co.uk>
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> > > Having been a long-time user of CakePHP 1.3, I was wondering why file and
> > > folder names are now CamelCased rather than just being lowercase and
> > > underscored?
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> > > Personally, I'm a fan of using lowercase and underscores in filenames
> > > (then CamelCase in my actual class declarations) so this change is pretty
> > > jarring to me.
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