Posted by burgermeister01@gmail.com on 08/29/07 17:59

On Aug 29, 4:31 am, Tyno Gendo <nob...@example.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> I need to move on a step in my PHP...
>
> I know what classes are, both in PHP4 and 5 and I'm aware of "patterns"
> existing, but what I'm looking for are some real world projects eg. Open
> Source that people consider to use classes and patterns correctly.
>
> I lack a senior person to lead me in this so I feel I'm losing out on
> only using bare PHP class features and not really knowing how to design
> proper base classes and use inheritence and patterns etc. in real world
> scenarios.
>
> Can anyone point me to some good real world examples such as open source
> projects that use these so I can learn properly?
>
> Or perhaps someone knows of good online courses that cover this? I did
> a PHP course at a local college, but to say it was BASIC is an
> understatement.


Sadly, I don't have any specific examples to give you, but I can offer
you my opinion on this matter.

When I first learned PHP, it was self-taught, and I didn't know much
of anything about programming, let alone OOP. After taking some
university classes, I did some pretty heavy coding in Java, which is
highly object-oriented. Eventually I moved back to PHP, and I found I
was able to apply almost all of what I had learned about objects/
classes/inheritance/object-oriented programming, and using the same
features in PHP was a snap. I guess the moral of my story is that if
you want to educate yourself further, you don't necessarily have to
limit yourself to PHP as the context language. General object-oriented
concepts should apply to your goal.

Or maybe I've totally misread your question and you already have a
good understanding on OOP, and need to know about it's context in PHP
exactly. Heh.

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