[Phpwm] Saving snippets of code - Which applications are best?

[elliot at townx.org]

Hello Gavin,

On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:59:52 +0000, David Goodwin <david at codepoets.co.uk>
wrote:
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> Gavin Kimpson wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> Everyone does this differently I know - but what applications do you
>> regularly use to save your 'snippets' of code that you commonly use?
> 
> I don't. I either rummage through previous projects where I remember
> something to be, or I will have added it to some sort of library-ish
> routine... and will use that

I agree with David: it's good discipline to extract pieces of code you use
regularly into libraries you can reuse. The job of extracting the code into
a library is a good exercise in itself, as it forces you to make your
functions more generic and remove any project-specific stuff (e.g.
hard-coded paths or constants). Better yet, find someone else's open source
code, use that, and contribute to it if you can: the Zend Framework is
bloody marvellous for this, but PEAR and PECL have lots to offer too.

Elliot



> 
> thanks
> David.
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> - --
> David Goodwin
> 
> [ david at codepoets dot co dot uk ]
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