Re: OOP in web development
| From: | Mark Maggelet | Date: | Tue, 13 Feb 2001 20:13:42 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: OOP in web development | ||
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On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 15:11:46 -0500, Kath (kath@kathweb.net) wrote:
>I find the ability to write something once (say a mysql_connect();
>statement) and be able to run it on any page just with $db-
>>connect(); is
>pretty cool.
>
>While that may not seem cool, if you some day change a a PHP
>statement that
>exists on many pages, this lets you change it in one place, instead
>of
>having to copy it to dozens of other places.
>
>Also, what happens if you change your database password and now need
>to
>change a bunch of pages to have the new password?
>
>Problem solved in OOP, because the vars are all in the same file.
You don't need OOP to keep your database connections in a separate
file. You can either use classes or not but it's really just about
style.