On Tuesday, March 5, 2002, at 05:40 PM, mojo jojo wrote:
> Hi Phillip > > Yes, thanks this does help. > > The problem with the tutorials that I have seen so far is that they are > very > simplistic and therefore do not reveal the benefits of this style of > programming. > > If anybody knows of any good tutorials, I would appreciate a link. FWIU, part of the problem is that, while PHP can simulate the way OOP works, it's not truly object oriented. For instance, in PHP you can only extend a class once (I might be wrong but I heard that somewhere). FWIU, a language like Python or Java is able to do quite a bit more with objects, and Python and Java both are very well-suited to larger applications (rather than the typical Perl or PHP script) which can benefit better from having these classes available for defining objects. I'm still trying to wrap my head around it myself. To date, the only way I've seen objects successfully used in PHP is in Larry Ullman's "PHP Advanced for the WWW (Visual QuickPro Guide, PeachPit Press)". It's used to separate the HTML page used in a PHP script from the PHP code itself, and it works very very well. There are probably hundreds of other applications in PHP that make effective use of objects, but I haven't seen them. Just yesterday I spent four hours trying to create a class that could help me manage the numerous forms that are used on the site I am developing. Unfortunately, my complete inexperience with this resulted in frustration and I gave up, going back to functions. I'm also not very intelligent, and working with classes and objects requires the programmer to be able to abstract their data in a way that I haven't yet learned to do. Sigh... someday. Erik ---- Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
