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Article:		The Practicality of OO PHP
Subject:		PHP OO drawbacks
Date:		2005-07-28 23:30:16
From:		jacekp
The so called 'longer development time' is not really a drawback at all. Once you get comfortable with OO (designing classes) it doesn't take much more time. However PHP OO, especially with version 4.x has a lot 'languae-level' drawbacks, that require you to maintain strict discipline and use various tricks. Personally I found that annoying enough to drop PHP for few applications. If you want to stick with PHP, then you might want to take look at http://www.phppatterns.com. You can find there a lot of tips for clean PHP OO programming.

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• PHP OO drawbacks
  2005-07-29 07:32:49  mr_peanut [View]
  
  
  Thanks for your comment! I agree with you that once you get comfortable with OOP that it definitely doesn't take as long; however, personally, I feel there is usually a longer initial programming time. Maybe because I try to organize my class files too much and add a substantial amount of comments :-) But, like the article says, as soon as you use the class a second time your productivity has increased substantially--so whether or not it initially takes you longer, you're still saving time.
  
  PHP 4.x does have some object drawbacks, but with the new PHP 5 object model, I think programmers migrating from other programming languages may feel a little more at home.
  
  I'll definitely check out phppatterns.com.