Re: All-in-one PHP Classes
| From: | Roman Neuhauser | Date: | Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:25:36 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: All-in-one PHP Classes | ||
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# user@internet46.fr / 2007-02-06 12:47:47 +0100:
> Have been reading posts daily for two months now on the list, and am very
> pleased at how informative these can be.
> I have noticed, many examples where one is pointed to using classes
> downloadable on the internet.
> This is when i realized how often these classes that do "everything" are
> very BIG.
Big classes and long methods are signs of bad code, no matter if it's
downloadable for free or costs money.
> Here, it's the programmer who is confronted with loading huge files into
> memory to use just one perhaps two function in a 300+ functionality class..
what's a "300+ functionality class"? One having more than 300 public
methods? Where can I see it? Such a beast could be legit (hard to tell
without knowing more), but it's probably a result of incompetence.
> Shouldn't these classes be perhaps broken down into usefull "parts".
Definitely.
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