On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 21:00, Graeme McLaren wrote: > Hey all .......... I'm thinkin about writing a web application using perl > and object oriented techniques. > Nice try, a good point learning OOP in any language. Design issues are not so easy to counsel.
> I want to start off small ....... lets say I want to put together a company > intranet and the part I want to implement first is staff profiles. Each > profile would contain their email address, name, username, picture, > position, favourite quote etc. I would recommend to store all this information in a hash, that will be the internal data structure if your class. > I'm thinking of implementing a profile class and a profiles class. the > "profile" class would be a template class and the "profiles" class would be > an abstraction of "profile" which would act like a container class for all > the "profile" objects. > > I'm really unclear on object oriented programming, especially in perl as it > doesn't really support OO properly. > > Can anyone give me some guidance as to how I would go about doing this, what > methods I would need etc ........... I'm a bit lost with this . At this point you are quite far from starting actual design. I guess, you should think a bit about the functionality, the sources of data, the generation of intranet pages and so on..... How your code will be used? I offer you more hints and ideas. Contact me directly in mail. Gabaux -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
