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Message # 1025608:
Date: 05/10/05 02:28
By: dmancan
Subject: OO and maintainability

I'm not a PHP programmer, but I've become interested in it because of its shift to a OO supported features. Yea, getting your head around OO designs, etc., can be tough, but when you get it, you realize that OO is beautiful--syntactically and aesthetically. I can't say the same for procedural based programs.

I've studied Java and mach ii for Coldfusion (both OO) and you cannot beat OO for maintainability and development speed. (There is now MachII for PHP which is a OO framework which is simple to understand and beautiful to implement). You can add elements to a website with easy or fear of radically having to change things like when you start screwing with a procedurally written site. I have put together applications that leveraged 80% of previously written classes only having to change a few things. That cut my development time by 80%. When I realized it at the time I was grinning from ear to ear.

When site maintenance is one of the most expensive parts of a website, why not write it in a way that facilitates this? When speed of development can win or lose contracts, save you days of programming, why not change.

After reading some articles on PHP5, I'm really happy to see it's advancement into OO land. I'm happy that I can now use PHP on projects and leverage the smart PHP community of programmers and applications that are out there.

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OO and maintainabilitydmancan05/10/05 02:28
Can some one Kel04/08/05 11:27
php image cacheMeg03/28/05 06:56
RE: pi is wrong?cross10/15/04 04:33
best for code generationYounkarm Chung09/09/04 13:33
PHP4 and PHP5 on Windows in 2 sec.Romain07/26/04 09:16
RE: Construct/Destruct/Memory in Php5Jona07/21/04 07:53
PHP5 on windowsRomain07/13/04 08:58
RE: No Polluting FlameWars - pleaseBrett King07/12/04 11:54
Procedural/Object Brothers - are we not one?Brett King07/12/04 11:45
RE: Oh my god!Tommy06/26/04 17:46
cloning doesnt workMarnix06/13/04 07:45
Think about itBisso06/09/04 10:24
RE: packagewednesday05/08/04 16:04
Did we miss the point???Sentry04/09/04 20:48
packageJohn03/12/04 07:50
RE: Great!Stephen McConnell02/25/04 13:48
No Polluting FlameWars - pleaseJacMoe12/19/03 17:49
Construct/Destruct/Memory in Php5Nikunj Soni12/03/03 01:34
RE: .net is betterScott Holodak11/14/03 19:29
RE: This is so stupidJosh Spivey10/16/03 17:36
PHP, JAVA, C++Rick Robinson09/04/03 00:00
RE: Look like Java to mejigen08/28/03 01:52
RE: PHP's direction - reassuranceMike Blamires08/06/03 08:00
RE: Look like Java to mecristobal garcia08/03/03 04:57
WERE IS THE PROBLEM? !!!Luca Stasio08/01/03 05:28
pi is wrong?Doug Dante07/31/03 12:12
Up to date with PHP5 changesBogdan07/25/03 12:44
Close to best of both worldsCarsten07/24/03 03:55
Missing the pointPradesh Chanderpaul07/23/03 08:04
PHP5 and Java will shape the new InternetLuiz Miguel Axcar07/15/03 11:02
Thanks, but no thanks...Scott07/15/03 04:10
Object porting from PHP4 to PHP5 ?platypus07/14/03 21:35
PHP 5 OOP Help ProjectsChristian Sueiras07/11/03 08:36
RE: Zeev nixes namespaces?Jean-Philippe Léveillé07/09/03 12:56
YahoooBrian Stegman07/09/03 10:46
RE: Oh my god!dvkm07/04/03 05:10
They have to make the leap sometimeFred McCann07/02/03 12:42
RE: .net is betterSimone06/29/03 09:41
I like it!!php4.2306/26/03 02:04
I Love It!Joel PIttet06/24/03 21:19
RE: .net is betterDavid Fells06/17/03 18:38
I guess IL is next...David Fells06/16/03 10:16
RE: This is so stupidZeev Suraski06/16/03 04:34
Excellentmuneer06/12/03 08:56
RE: PHP4/PHP5 - C/C++Sriram06/10/03 00:47
Zeev nixes namespaces?David Vance06/09/03 16:16
Switch to jsp.Bill Berggren06/06/03 02:09
RE: My little tiffs && RE: PHP4/PHP5 - C/C++Gaetano Giunta06/03/03 08:39
RE: .net is bettermatrix05/29/03 16:45
This is so stupidExcorcist05/29/03 01:36
RE: no finally ?Eric Golpe05/22/03 08:36
RE: Look like Java to meBrandon Goodin05/21/03 19:27
no finally ?Norman Shu05/20/03 06:00
RE: .net is betterYonmaN05/20/03 03:16
RE: .net is betterIan05/16/03 17:01
RE: PHP's direction - reassuranceMichael Muryn05/14/03 22:14
Thank you! But when's it official?David Chen05/13/03 23:31
RE: .net is betterfeather05/09/03 15:40
Portability of PHP4 code to PHP5Etherel Johnson05/09/03 06:54
wat r they upto...aasim05/09/03 03:52
Aces specifiers for name spaceSaravanan05/09/03 03:38
RE: PHP4/PHP5 - C/C++Parla05/02/03 08:44
.net is betterJohn05/01/03 18:23
Divergion?jim caprioli04/30/03 10:42
RE: InterfacesLuis04/29/03 17:28
PHP5 ---> going SeriousCristovão Morgado04/23/03 13:30
Interfacesahundiak04/23/03 09:23
RE: Look like Java to meRegina04/22/03 09:50
RE: Look like Java to meScott R.S.04/20/03 17:24
RE: PHP-GTK & PHP5... XUL?Harry Fuecks04/20/03 13:20
It keeps getting better!Eric Golpe04/20/03 11:23
Love It!!Simon Johnson04/20/03 08:30
RE: PHP-GTK & PHP5John Starkey04/19/03 15:30
RE: Great!Sam Barnum04/18/03 21:42
RE: Look like Java to meJakes04/18/03 14:18
RE: Oh my god!Wil Hepworth04/17/03 10:18
My little tiffs && RE: PHP4/PHP5 - C/C++James Payne04/16/03 16:52
Constructor ChainingEd Williams04/16/03 11:32
RE: Look like Java to meJayant Kumar Gandhi04/16/03 11:15
RE: PHP's direction - reassuranceDavid Fung04/15/03 18:00
what's the problemgeoffrey golliher04/15/03 16:22
PHP-GTK & PHP5Jakes04/15/03 15:38
PHP's direction - reassuranceZeev Suraski04/15/03 08:39
RE: PHP4/PHP5 - C/C++Martin Braun04/15/03 06:29
RE: Look like Java to meNathan Trujillo04/14/03 23:27
RE: PHP4/PHP5 - C/C++Stefan Johnson04/14/03 17:13
PHP4/PHP5 - C/C++Jean-Marc Molina04/14/03 06:45
RE: Look like Java to meIan Holmes04/14/03 06:28
RE: Look like Java to meChris G Haravata04/13/03 19:29
Great!Edward Hermanson04/13/03 17:37
Hmmm...Edward Hermanson04/13/03 14:58
Look like Java to meJohn C. Ghormley04/13/03 11:28
RE: Oh my god!epplestun04/13/03 06:40
Oh my god!Marcel Swinkels04/12/03 07:01
 

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