addedValues Plugin

Variables: Naming Conventions

There are a couple of questions to ask yourself before actually naming a variable:

• Will you / editors be able to understand the name of the field ?
• are there particularities, such as linguistic version of a field you want to think about? How should they appear?

A note on global values. Global values can also be defined when actually naming your variable. These values, which remain identical across an entire site need to be identified at the start. This can be something like a list of country codes or language codes. An example of the use of global values to validate data entry is illustrated in the variables behaviour page.

Thus, defining global values before getting started is a very healthy thing.