On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:33 AM, robert <roadtested@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Along the lines of a previous post "How to get a code review", I am > curious if it is overkill to create everything in classes. For example, a > movie website where there is a class for the movie datatype, class for > getting/adding/deleting/updating movie's data to the database, and class for > displaying the data. (Of course there are classes for general functionality > like sql database connection etc.) For listing movies alone there are at > least 4 different inheritance classes for chronological, alphabetic, > category and keyword. Anyway this is how I coded something similar but for > Flash/Actionscript site but I'm not sure about a PHP site. I appreciate your > comments. > - robert to each his own; i am somewhat of an oop zealot, but i will advise u to heed the reality that php affords the use of functions in the global namespace and this feature is often useful even if an application is oop-centric. sometimes being able to just crank out a function and be done w/ it is nice :) and other times it makes sense from a design perspective to offer 'convenience' functions in the global scope, which often times may actually dip into functionality implemented in a class. this sort of stuff will be getting a twist in days to come (php 5.3+) when we will be able to write functions (that arent class members) and segregate them from the global scope albiet namespaces. -nathan
