Posted by Todd Cary on 11/26/05 18:00

My background is in Object Oriented Pascal (Delphi), however I am having
difficulty knowing when to make a class in PHP. For instance, in my
script file, functions.php, I have these functions among others:

/* Input a field */
function input_field($name, $value, $size, $max) {
echo('<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="' . $name . '" VALUE="' . $value .
'" SIZE="' . $size . '" MAXLENGTH="' . $max . '">');
};

/* Input a password field */
function input_password_field($name, $value, $size, $max) {
echo('<INPUT TYPE="password" NAME="' . $name . '" VALUE="' . $value .
'" SIZE="' . $size . '" MAXLENGTH="' . $max . '">');
};


Should I have a class that contains these functions (methods)?

One of my non-profit clients would like to have an online emailer
program driven by a MySQL database. This I can envision as a class,
actually several classes (e.g. send mail, create message, select
addresses, etc.).

Todd

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