variable conventions

[denise]

A comment made in Bugzilla this morning had me thinking: what are the variables we use by convention (or should use) everywhere throughout the code? I want to make a list of them so that a) people can know what they are and not re-use them for other things, and b). we can go through and change things that don't use them.

The ones I immediately thought of are:

$u: user object
$remote: remote logged-in viewer


What else is there? (And if there isn't a convention for a specific reference, and it's got five or six variable names throughout the code, mention that too, so we can standardize.)

Code tour: June 22, 2010 - June 28, 2010

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Welcome to new patch contributor catness! This code tour also introduces documentation changes being tracked through Bugzilla, as well as other tasks. There are 37 feature-and-bugfix bugs resolved this week, and 1 documentation bug.

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