Re: What's about the double underscore in front of methods?

Thank you for the information, guys.

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On 27 Aug., 11:32, nurvzy <nur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmm, I actually thought the idea behind the underscores was to provide
> a sudo protected/private flags for PHP4.  One underscore means
> protected, two means private.  While there is nothing in PHP4 that
> prohibiting one to use a function with __ or _ prefix, it is
> universally frowned upon as you're implementing a function that was
> not intended to be utilized outside its own instance/hierarchy.
>
> The exception to this rule as far as I know in CakePHP is the __()
> function which is a translation function that auto-echos by default.
>
> I imagine Jeremy is right in this case, __getPageTitle is probably a
> custom function defined for translation purposes that leverages the
> __() function.
>
> Nick
>
> On Aug 27, 2:42 am, Jeremy Burns | Class Outfit
>
> <jeremybu...@classoutfit.com> wrote:
> > It's used in localisation - it basically looks to see if you have defined a translated version of the contents of the brackets. Seehttp://book.cakephp.org/view/1229/Internationalizing-Your-Application.
>
> > Jeremy Burns
> > Class Outfit
>
> > jeremybu...@classoutfit.comhttp://www.classoutfit.com
>
> > On 27 Aug 2010, at 09:31, psybear83 wrote:
>
> > > Hi everybody
>
> > > I stumbled over some methods in a CakePHP app I've taken over from
> > > somebody that begin with a double underscoore, e.g.:
>
> > > __getPageTitle(...)
>
> > > I'm not sure what's the philosophy about that? I know one underscore
> > > as the convention for private methods, but two underscores?
>
> > > Thanks a lot for informations.
> > > Joshua
>
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