Code Beautifier

[DarkWolfen]

I've seen and used phpCodeBeautifier (http://www.phpedit.net/products/phpCodeBeautifier/)

from the gent who created phpEdit. It is quite good. However, I have been trying to explore any other tools that provide similar functionality. I've used several for VB, Java and perl that allow you to set rules for comments, whitespace, and even variable naming conventions.

We've got a few sloppy (but brilliant) coders at my workplace which this would help us enforce coding standards.

Thanks,

Dan

It makes the code look ugly...
It adds unneeded /*
*
*
*
******/
etc...

}
else
{
becomes
} else {
ugly...

[cirox]

Well, the really expensive option: Dreamweaver MX 2004. Since we've had it up at the college, my code's actually gotten a lot more readable.. It has an auto formatting option that can beautify just about anything.. I've even loaded C files into it just to use it's beautiflication feature.. it really rivals that of anything I've ever seen..

things like this:
function pagehit($bleh)
{
echo "you hit me";
if ($something > 1) {
echo "meow";
}
}

become:
function pagehit($bleh)
(
echo "you hit me";
if ($something >1)
{
echo "meow";
}
}

and it's pretty customizable, whether the space be made by tabs, a number of spaces, etc etc etc.

[stuart]

The thing with phpCodeBeautifier is that it can be configured to suit your personal style. So basically it's only ugly if you don't configure it to way you like.

Personally I do not use it as it did sometimes remove inportant pieces of required code. But I believe there has been many updates since. I'm sure it has it's place!!