Object Oriented PHP

[Water Cooler v2]

I am new to PHP, just one day new. But I am otherwise a seasoned
programmer on many other languages like C, VB 6, C#, VB.NET, Win32
platform and have some tiny bit experience in MFC, C++, Python.

All the tutorials I read so far about PHP contain procedural examples.
I haven't yet come accross a tutorial on the object oriented PHP. Could
someone point me to one?

[Dikkie Dik]

Not a tutorial, but an example:
http://www.w-p.dds.nl/tinyunit.htm

Water Cooler v2 wrote:

I am new to PHP, just one day new. But I am otherwise a seasoned
programmer on many other languages like C, VB 6, C#, VB.NET, Win32
platform and have some tiny bit experience in MFC, C++, Python.

All the tutorials I read so far about PHP contain procedural examples.
I haven't yet come accross a tutorial on the object oriented PHP. Could
someone point me to one?

[Water Cooler v2]

I've seen the C++ scope resolution operator used in some place in PHP
code. I do not recall where I saw it.

What's that (::) for? Does it have the same use as in C++?

[NC]

Water Cooler v2 wrote:

All the tutorials I read so far about PHP contain procedural examples.
I haven't yet come accross a tutorial on the object oriented PHP. Could
someone point me to one?

Start with the Manual:

http://www.php.net/OOP
http://www.php.net/OOP5

Note that there are differences between PHP 4 and PHP 5 when it comes
to OO syntax.

Cheers,
NC

[NC]

Water Cooler v2 wrote:

What's that (::) for? Does it have the same use as in C++?

It's all in the Manual:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/keyword...ekudotayim.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/languag...ekudotayim.php

Cheers,
NC

[Water Cooler v2]

Thanks very much. :-)

[william.clarke]

Water Cooler v2 wrote:

Thanks very much. :-)

Here's an OO versus Procedural example of making a MySQLi connection

http://au.php.net/manual/en/function.mysqli-prepare.php

[Henk Verhoeven]

Water Cooler v2 wrote:

Thanks very much. :-)

You can olso read
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerwork...xw01DynamicPHP
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2005...erloading.html
The thread "PHP Dynamic Database Code" started by jo******@gmail. com on
Fri, 9 Jun 2006 23:13:21 +0000 (UTC) (from which i have the above urls)
may also be interesting.

Once you have a reasonable understanding of the basics of OOP, you could
take a look at the examples/turorial of phpPeanuts, experiment with it
and dig into its code using the hypercode browsers to try to understand
how the framework works. It's very OO ;-)

Greetings,

Henk Verhoeven,
www.phpPeanuts.org.

[NC]

427SOHC wrote:

If I haven't worked with OOP much would PHP be a safe
starting point, or is there a better programming language
to start with?

If you haven't worked with OOP before, start by learning OOP in the
language you otherwise know well. Once you understand the basic
concepts (encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism, etc.), you will be
able to ask intelligent questions about how those concepts are
implemented in other languages.

Also, note that PHP 4 and PHP 5 have different object models; the one
in PHP 5 is more in line with what you find in other languages, while
the one in PHP 4 is simpler, but more restrictive.

Cheers,
NC

[Tony Marston]

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427SOHC wrote:

If I haven't worked with OOP much would PHP be a safe
starting point, or is there a better programming language
to start with?

If you haven't worked with OOP before, start by learning OOP in the
language you otherwise know well. Once you understand the basic
concepts (encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism, etc.), you will be
able to ask intelligent questions about how those concepts are
implemented in other languages.

Also, note that PHP 4 and PHP 5 have different object models; the one
in PHP 5 is more in line with what you find in other languages, while
the one in PHP 4 is simpler, but more restrictive.

"More restrictive" is a point of view. It is possible to write OO code in
PHP 4 that also runs in PHP 5, as I have proved with my sample application
and later my full-blown framework.

AFAIAC the extra OO features in PHP 5 are nothing more than eye candy as
they do not provide any additional functionality which is worthy of merit.
They were only included to appease the OO purists.

--
Tony Marston
http://www.tonymarston.net
http://www.radicore.org