RE: [PHP] Re: PHP OOP x Procedural Performance

Sure ... I'm of the belief that OOP (in PHP anyways) has great use for core libraries. Core libraries, by their nature, generally don't output HTML. It's a core libraries job to separate logic and presentation. How portable is your library that outputs HTML for a guy who wants PDF/WAP/XML output? For instance, I have a product class that does various things to format product *data* prior to my procedural scripts putting it into my Smarty templates. If that product class outputted the data in HTML it would be useless to me for WAP users or a script that generated PDF versions of our online catalog. --Joe -- Joe Stump <joe@joestump.net> http://www.joestump.net "Label makers are proof God wants Sys Admins to be happy." -----Original Message----- From: Johnson, Kirk [mailto:kjohnson@zootweb.com] Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 8:21 AM To: 'Joe Stump'; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] Re: PHP OOP x Procedural Performance > One thing I'd like to abundantly point out is that NOT > EVERYTHING BELONGS IN > OOP! For instance, if you're building classes that output > HTML - you've > skipped a few chapters in your OOP design books. Joe, I am curious about this opinion, could you elaborate a bit, please? I am not an OOP programmer, and I'm just interested in your thoughts on this, if you have time. Kirk