Posted by Hendri Kurniawan on 05/07/07 22:14

Sorry let me clarify that again on the constructor.
Although PHP4 have different constructor than of PHP5. PHP5 will
"understand" PHP4 constructor, and you would NOT need to change the code.

Hendri Kurniawan wrote:
> Michael Fesser wrote:
>> .oO(cluthz)
>>
>>> "Ok well thanks for that. I was going from the text in PHP and MYSQL
>>> Web Development. Chapter 6 talks about _get and __set and at the end
>>> of the talk it mentiosn features specicifcally avaialble in PHP 5 (so
>>> I assumed the previously mentioned was available on version 4).
>>>
>>> Anyway, maybe then I should forget about OO for php 4 then.
>>
>> Yes, more or less. Objects in PHP4 are just arrays with some associated
>> functions, that's pretty much all about them. In PHP5 they are something
>> completely different, which comes much closer to what you can call OOP.
>> Still not perfect, but quite usable.
>>
>> Try to upgrade if possible.
>>
>> Micha
>
> I take a different view of OOP for PHP4 than Michael Fesser.
> Although it's OOP is less developed than PHP5, IMHO you are still able
> to take advantage of it, and apply OOP concept using PHP4.
>
> To port PHP4 OOP code to PHP5 does not take much. PHP5 will run PHP4
> "legacy" code without a hitch most of the time. Just a special mention
> to constructor within PHP4 is different of those of PHP5.
>
> Hendri Kurniawan

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