More components of Object Oriented PHP

Static Class Members In the articles on properties and methods in classes in PHP namely: Defining Class Properties in PHP Defining...

Using Constructors and Destructors in PHP

Often, you’ll want to execute a number of tasks when creating and destroying objects. For example, you might want to immediately assign s...

Defining Class Methods in PHP

A method is quite similar to a function, except that it is intended to define the behavior of a particular class ( more about classes in ...

Defining Class Properties in PHP :: continued

Property Overloading Property overloading continues to protect properties by forcing access and manipulation through public methods , y...

Defining Class Properties in PHP

Properties are attributes that are intended to describe some aspect of a class. They are quite similar to standard PHP variables ( more ...

Key concepts of OOP in PHP

In the previous post on Benefits of Object-Oriented Programming I focused three of OOP’s foundational concepts: encapsulation, inheritan...

Benefits of Object-Oriented Programming

Although PHP did not start out as an object-oriented language , over the years a great deal of effort has been put into adding many of th...