Posted by Viator on 12/02/07 14:56

Hi folks,

I have a basic question. When I do object-oriented programming
using C++ or Java, all my objects reside in RAM. I do not have
to think about storing and retrieving them, because they are
in RAM and that space has been allocated for them and
the program is continually running, so neither program nor
objects are going to disappear.

It seems to me, having never done OOP in PHP, that this
arrangement would not exist in PHP, because program+objects
only exist when a page is being constructed. In the meantime,
where are the objects? You might say, "in my MySQL database",
and that is certainly a capable storage medium, however
it takes time to get them out, and to store them back into it.

So the question is, I think, appropriate. Since PHP has
(AFAIK) no object storage other than a database, is
OOP in PHP really appropriate?

If there is some other storage medium can you tell me what it is?

If there isn't another faster storage medium than a database,
why doesn't someone create one, to improve efficiency?

Thanks.

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