Linked by John Collins on Wed 21st Apr 2004 06:42 UTC
The purpose of this article is to give a novice programmer the basic idea of what OOP is, as implemented using PHP. Readers should have a basic knowledge of programming ie what variables are, variable types, basic methods of writing comments, and how to enter code into a text editor.
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PHP is a good choice, it's easy to learn with clear syntax.
You really don't need to create web-based application with PHP, you can do console, even GUI applications. I've written several phpgtk apps with php/gtk and especially looking forwards php5+gtk 2.0 support.
Developing Script languages is much faster than compiling c++ for example, which makes it especially good for learning.
I write PHP as my work and I can tell you, PHP has really nice OO features and makes possible to develop OO code very fast. Of course, lots to improve, but PHP5 with Zend engine 2.0 brings really good OO capabilities.
You're referring to Python. Do you even know Python syntax or have even coded in python? Python syntax, in my opinion, is very ugly. Horrible ugly. PHP syntax is quite near C++ and Java, which makes learning them easy in the future.
Just my opinion.