Change 'elseif' standard to 'else if'

I stumbled on this now. In 8x, there are very few places where "else if" is used in PHP code, while D7 have a little more. I agree "else if" is more readable than "elseif" and I specially agree with conforming to other languages. Also, conforming to other projects, since Symfony itself has no occurrance of elseif as well. Party can begin with a patch too =).

patch looks clean, only thing i noticed is that the symfony files are also patched, since i don't know if this is needed leaving this as NR

Well, besides OK'ing the patch, we have to get some agreement from the dev community that we want to adopt this as a standard. :)

By the way, I'll just say that in my experience with programming in ... well let's just say a LOT of languages, there are three "standard" conventions I've seen:
- elseif
- elsif (no e)
- else if
PHP apparently supports two of them... when switching back and forth between languages, you just have to incur the syntax errors or try to remember.

Hmm:
http://us.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.elseif.php
says:

Note: Note that elseif and else if will only be considered exactly the same when using curly brackets as in the above example. When using a colon to define your if/elseif conditions, you must not separate else if into two words, or PHP will fail with a parse error.

So, that's something to think about. elseif and else if are not actually exactly the same.

Mmm, funny, I didn't notice that as well (symfony), this puts a big question mark on it, since it's the actual opposite of what I mentioned earlier: Symfony uses "elseif" consistently.

Also, a search on google for "elseif" does return good results (webchick research is from 2009).

Regarding the note about colon-followed structures, I haven't found a usage of elseif on that, but standards affect more than core (like themes).

I guess we have enough arguments to keep the standard to elseif and enforce it where it's not used.

symfony - elseif
zend framework - elseif
codeIgniter - elseif
..

and more frameworks are elseif..

Created a new issue to enforce the standard: #1509838: Enforce "elseif" standard

Created a new issue to enforce the standard rather than changing: #1509838: Enforce "elseif" standard