http://metrol.wordpress.com/2008/03/08/php-from-procedural-to-object-oriented/ A little corner of the web for Metrol rants Mon, 29 Dec 2008 06:36:06 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://metrol.wordpress.com/2008/03/08/php-from-procedural-to-object-oriented/#comment-2 PHP - From Procedural to Object Oriented Sat, 08 Mar 2008 05:02:25 +0000 http://metrol.wordpress.com/2008/03/08/php-from-procedural-to-object-oriented/#comment-2 [...] http://fmpub.net/contact.php?to=jb wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptI hated the notion of Object Oriented (OO) programming. I’d been using PHP since early version 3, and I had put together some very usable web sites with it. Every book I read on the topic seemed to be rich with metaphors about dogs, cars, and various other things, but not much on why I would want to abandon my happy procedural methods. Not that these authors didn’t try. The arguments they made just didn’t hit home with me at the time. I think I may now understand why this was. Most of the efforts I’ve seen to describe object oriented design are coming from the perspective of someone who thinks in an OO way. I’m not saying this was a bad approach, it just really didn’t work for me. Perhaps if I hadn’t been so deeply entrenched in the methodologies I had been using for years I would have been […] [...] [...] http://fmpub.net/contact.php?to=jb wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptI hated the notion of Object Oriented (OO) programming. I’d been using PHP since early version 3, and I had put together some very usable web sites with it. Every book I read on the topic seemed to be rich with metaphors about dogs, cars, and various other things, but not much on why I would want to abandon my happy procedural methods. Not that these authors didn’t try. The arguments they made just didn’t hit home with me at the time. I think I may now understand why this was. Most of the efforts I’ve seen to describe object oriented design are coming from the perspective of someone who thinks in an OO way. I’m not saying this was a bad approach, it just really didn’t work for me. Perhaps if I hadn’t been so deeply entrenched in the methodologies I had been using for years I would have been […] [...]

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