Object-Oriented PHP by Peter Lavin teaches the fundamentals of object-oriented programming (OOP) by guiding the reader through a series of inter-related example classes. There are two audiences that ...

A programming language structure wherein the data and their associated processing ("methods") are defined as self-contained entities called "objects." Becoming popular in the early 1990s and the norm ...

PHP 3 was released in mid-1998. Some basic object-oriented (OO) capabilities were included, more or less as an afterthought, to "provide new ways of accessing arrays." 1 No significant changes were ...

Since it was introduced in 1997, the enormously popular open-source, server-side scripting language PHP has been gaining momentum, winning fans and burrowing into the enterprise. Consequently, many of ...

One of the easiest ways to understand what is meant by ‘object oriented’, is to define what it is not. Before Object Oriented Programming (OOP) programs were written an imperative way, essentially a ...