A Note About Coding Styles

There are almost as many coding styles as there are programmers. The PHP examples in this book follow the PEAR coding standard, with the opening curly bracket on the line below the function name. In some cases, we've placed the curly bracket on the same line as the function name. We encourage you to adopt the style you are most comfortable with.

Note

A code continuation character, , appears at the beginning of code lines that have wrapped down from the line above it.