Looking for some PHP OO programming guides

Hi, I'm just getting into programming in an Object Oriented fashion, and am looking for some guides, tutorials, hints, tips, etc... I only just found out that you remove the $ from variables when calling them from $this-> e.g : <?php class People { private $person = "not set"; function __construct() {

    *$person* = "A person"; //This doesn't work (well it creates a variable $person that only has the scope of the current function from what I can gather)..
    $this->*person* = "A person"; //This works properly
    }

function display_list() { echo $person; //This doesn't work

     echo $this->person; //This works.

} } $person= new People; $person->display_list(); ?> Instead of painstakingly working out most of the other mistakes I'm likely to make, I'd love to read about other peoples issues they had with learning OO so I can skip most of the hard stuff, and only make small mistakes (hopefully). -- Michael Kubler *G*rey *P*hoenix *P*roductions <http://www.greyphoenix.biz>