Re: oo question

>so although the second class has a lot more code in it, it also allows >me to change what happens behinds the scenes (i.e. variable names) more >easily. for example the customer will always have a "first_name" but i >may not always want to use $fname to represent it within the class. >this revised class, in my limited experience, seems to be much more oo >than my current class. >seeing as how this email turned out longer than i had planned i will >only be asking one question at this time. in fact i can't even remember >what my second question was anyway. :) >any and all comments are appreciated! >thanks, >chris. Hi Chris, the second approach is definitely much, much better and the right way to go. But what exactly is your QUESTION? One personal suggestion: you could directly put the code from initialize_customer() into the constructor. Regards, Torsten Roehr