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[Brian Dailey]

Brian,

I suggest that you look into MVC frameworks (like CakePHP) to see how 
you could use them to create your new website. That would help you to 
better understand OOP, and how you seperate different functions into 
logical categories.

For example, with some of your pages that will probably be stored in a 
database (Tutorials, News, maybe Code Samples) you could create 
functions to create, update, and delete these records inside the MVC 
framework. Using something like CakePHP would, I think, put you on the 
road to discovering why OOP is so important even in web-based 
application development.

-- 

Thanks!
- Brian Dailey
Software Developer
New York, NY
www.dailytechnology.net

Brian O'Connor wrote:
> My apologies, the web browser decided to send prematurely on that one.
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I've been on this list for a few years now reading, and attribute much 
> of my knowledge of PHP to users on this list (in one way or another).
> 
> I am currently rebuilding my homepage from scratch, which means I have 
> to redo all the server side code.  Now, traditionally I've built all my 
> web sites using php4, but I've looked a lot into php5 and its new OOP 
> support.  As a little background, I'm currently a computer science 
> student in college, and have studied oop to a great deal.
> 
> Here's my problem : I don't see how using php5 and oop would really 
> benefit me in building websites.  I understand objects, code reusability 
> and all that.  So I'm going to put the areas of my site here, and see 
> how you guys would build objects for them.
> 
> I have these sections:
> News
> Portfolio
> Code (samples of code that I've written, for resume-type purposes)
> Tutorials
> Contact
> About Me
> 
> At first glance, I thought to object-ify the portfolio section, where 
> each "project" would be an object.  But other than that, I don't see 
> anywhere on the site to use objects, and I could easily do that without 
> objects.
> 
> I'd like to expand my resume by being able to say that I have done OOP 
> in php5, as I see on the jobs list that that is what employers are 
> looking for (at least quite a few are).
> 
> In addition, I was wondering what your suggestions are for php5 and oop, 
> I don't need an oop introduction or anything like that, I'd just like 
> some examples of how using objects would make the site better and how to 
> structure them.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> -- 
> Brian O'Connor
> 
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