I think the announcement of end of life for PHP4 should be enough to
move on to PHP5.
As per why OO is beneficial I think it would be best to @ least look
at one of the major frameworks out there, either CakePHP, Symfony,
Joolma, etc and see how they are built since it is a good case of how
code reuse and not just using OO but extending OO is extremely time
saving. Personally it sounds like you would benefit from learning
MVC and just running with it. Also most of today's frameworks
already have structures in place for where to place items like models
(Article, CodeSnippet, etc) and other content, another benefit I think.
Another good part ... people are sharing much of what they write w/
them (http://bakery.cakephp.org). I also think PHP5 is better for
test driven and behavior driven development which I think will become
another must have.
- Jon
On Jul 17, 2007, at 12:06 PM, Brian O'Connor wrote:
My apologies, the web browser decided to send prematurely on that one.
Hello all,
I've been on this list for a few years now reading, and attribute
much of my
knowledge of PHP to users on this list (in one way or another).
I am currently rebuilding my homepage from scratch, which means I
have to
redo all the server side code. Now, traditionally I've built all
my web
sites using php4, but I've looked a lot into php5 and its new OOP
support.
As a little background, I'm currently a computer science student in
college,
and have studied oop to a great deal.
Here's my problem : I don't see how using php5 and oop would really
benefit
me in building websites. I understand objects, code reusability
and all
that. So I'm going to put the areas of my site here, and see how
you guys
would build objects for them.
I have these sections:
News
Portfolio
Code (samples of code that I've written, for resume-type purposes)
Tutorials
Contact
About Me
At first glance, I thought to object-ify the portfolio section,
where each
"project" would be an object. But other than that, I don't see
anywhere on
the site to use objects, and I could easily do that without objects.
I'd like to expand my resume by being able to say that I have done
OOP in
php5, as I see on the jobs list that that is what employers are
looking for
(at least quite a few are).
In addition, I was wondering what your suggestions are for php5 and
oop, I
don't need an oop introduction or anything like that, I'd just like
some
examples of how using objects would make the site better and how to
structure them.
Thanks in advance,
--
Brian O'Connor
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