On Thu, October 12, 2006 12:49 am, Stut wrote: > Roman Neuhauser wrote: >> # stuttle@xxxxxxxxx / 2006-10-11 21:28:36 +0100: >>> Richard Lynch wrote: >>>> On Tue, October 10, 2006 6:14 pm, Chris de Vidal wrote: >>>>> I want to create a "customer" class which fetches its attributes >>>>> from >>>>> a MySQL database. >>>> No, you don't. :-) >>>> >>>> This is a classic example of the "obvious" OOP solution being >>>> wildly >>>> inappropriate. >>> Ok, so I now find myself in the unusual position of disagreeing >>> with the >>> Lynchmeister. Why is this wildly inappropriate? IMHO this is what >>> OOP is >>> all about. To clarify my original statement. The *OBVIOUS* OOP setup of customer ===> class customer was the wildly in appropriate bit, not using OOP in some more sensible manner, like: //a set of customers class customers ( var customer_ids array(); } I believe my original post went on to say that more explicitly, but I can now see that many thought I was just railing against OOP in general, which was not my intent. (In *this* particular sentence, anyway. :-)) -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
