[PHP] Re: OO Programming - get practical

2002-07-24 Thread Paul Dionne
Thanks Richard, actually your comments really help. As I said to a few others who replied directly, I feel like it is something I ought to be doing. But most of my development is small-scale and I work alone. There is no external pressure to do so. Furthermore, I fear that if I were to

[PHP] re: OO Programming - get practical

2002-07-23 Thread Javier Montserat
For a really good overview of the OO programming read Thinking in Java by Bruce Eckel. What you learn can then easily be applied to your coding practices in PHP. The author has made the book available for free from his site www.mindview.com

RE: [PHP] re: OO Programming - get practical

2002-07-23 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] For a really good overview of the OO programming read Thinking in Java by Bruce Eckel. What you learn can then easily be applied to your coding practices in PHP. The author has made the book available for free from his site www.mindview.com [/snip] Try http://www.mindview.net HTH!

[PHP] Re: OO Programming - get practical

2002-07-23 Thread Lee Doolan
Paul == Paul Dionne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [. . .] Paul So, I guess my point is that if people want to encourage use Paul of OO programming, they need to use more examples in their Paul books instead of what is easy.

[PHP] Re: OO Programming - get practical

2002-07-23 Thread Mathieu Dumoulin
If i can suggest... I'm working on a project for the Quebec Junior Major Hockey league and i found out that objects can be quite usefull in a large scale web application like this one. What i am doing is an object that connects to the database and stores pertinent information into it. Also, i

[PHP] Re: OO Programming - get practical

2002-07-23 Thread Richard Lynch
I want to point something out to aspiring authors. The truth is, that few books and web pages out there show examples using OO methods. For example, the book I use as my primary reference has one chapter on OO PHP and that is it. The rest of the examples in the book are in regular