I think that it would be more elegant if you are already in a OOP to keep the flow and stick to OOP. It just doesn't make sense to me in an environment that uses OOP to have functions laying around. Personally I like to group similar functionality together in their own objects, this way I can reuse them on different projects, the random string generator is an excellent example of something I usually use in almost all of my projects. Function calling is usually faster than object calling (depends on how you benchmark it) since there is an overhead to it. There are some who tried to "benchmark" this and had opposite results, It all comes down to how are you going to use that functionality: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=538076 http://www.micro-optimization.com/global-function-vs-static-method Personally in my projects - specifically if I use a framework, I try to stay away from making standalone functions unless absolutely necessary. On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Sebastian Krebs <krebs.seb@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > 2013/9/19 Simon Dániel <simondani91@xxxxxxxxx> > > > Hi, > > > > I am working on an OOP project, and cannot decide which way to follow > when > > I have to write a simple function. > > > > For example, I want to write a function which generates a random string. > In > > an OOP environtment, it is a matter of course to create a static class > and > > a static method for that. But why? Isn't it more elegant, if I implement > > such a simple thing as a plain function? > > > I'd say: Definitely! > > > > Not to mention that a function is > > more efficient than a class method. > > > > Actually I wouldn't be so sure about that. > > > > > > So, in object-oriented programming, what is the best practice to > implement > > such a simple function? > > > > In "strict"-OOP [1] you would choose a static method, because functions are > simply forbidden. However, PHP isn't strict about that by itself. So I for > myself don't like the dogmatic "We use classes and nothing else!"-approach. > If a function fits better, it's OK to be a function. > > [1] Actually that would end up in a mix of OOP and "class-oriented > programming", which isn't that strict. > > -- > github.com/KingCrunch >
