Re: PHP5 objects access/instantiation model (correction)

On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 12:07 -0400, Nathan Nobbe wrote: > > I also don't really get the idea of interface and abstract classes ? They > > don't seem to be any practical use ? Maybe that's me ? Anyway, not really > > relevant to this post ... > > there is a lot of usefulness in these constructs; look into design patterns. > also, there are code libraries already written w/ the abstraction you are > trying to develop. > im not discouraging you from developing your own, but it may be helpful for > you to study some of the other code. > check out > http://pear.php.net/package/MDB2 > > http://ez.no/doc/components/view/2007.1/(file)/classtrees_Database.html > http://www.onphp.org/doxy/trunk/ > > -nathan > ps. > > i believe interjinn provides a db layer as well :> It does :) It was especially important in PHP4 since there was no PDO as there is now in PHP5. Not that I'm particularly familiar with PDO (maybe it has deficiencies?). Cheers, Rob. -- ........................................................... SwarmBuy.com - http://www.swarmbuy.com Leveraging the buying power of the masses! ...........................................................