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.
Permalink for comment
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Recent Original Stories
Recent Comments
Headlines
Random Comments
Random Stories
Random OS Link
You're not clueless. I've never done PHP, but I've done a lot of C++ and quite a bit of C#....a little Java. OOP has it's uses but it's been oversold - especially it's reusability in comparison to procedural code.
In reality not everything has to be in a class, but could just as easily be a standalone function in a particular namespace to avoid namespace collisions. I like how c# v2.0 will introduce static classes so you don't have to prefix all your variables and functions with static in the class, but I still don't see why you can't have a standalone function in a particular namespace. Maybe it's a compiler issue. I don't know