Hi
...suggest u take a look at this article by Kevin Yank at SitePoint:
http://www.webmasterbase.com/article/662 . I think he is a great author of
small and efficient articles!
Web inventor
Michael Cronstrom
At 21:22 05/03/02, you wrote:
>Hi
>
>I've been using php for a while now but I have not got my head around OOP
>(classes).
>
>Why bother using them? I've read thru a few tutorials on using classes and
>the examples given are quite simple. This is probably the problem - I just
>can't see the benefit of using this style of programming.
>
>Here is what I'm getting at.
>
>------------USING A CLASS-----------------
>class Table {
>
> var $rows;
> var $columns;
>
> function MakeTable() {
>
> draw a table with $this->columns as the number of columns
> and $this->rows as the number of rows
>
> }
>}
>
>$mytable = new Table;
>$mytable->rows = 5;
>$mytable->columns = 10;
>$mytable->MakeTable();
>
>---------------USING A NORMAL FUNCTION-----
>
>function MakeTable($rows,$columns) {
>
> make a table with $rows as the number of rows
> and $columns as the number of columns
>
>}
>
>$rows = 5;
>$columns = 10;
>MakeTable($rows,$columns);
>
>-----------------------------------------------------------
>
>Using a class doesn't appear to give me any benefits - in fact the code is
>longer.
>
>I know that you can spawn more instances of the same class which sounds
>useful, however I can also run my function as many times as I like using
>different variables.
>
>What am I missing here?
>
>Thanks
>
>Mojo
>
>
>
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